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DAWSON, Ailsa Ruth interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 11
Identifier: H0265
Overview
In this interview Ailsa talks about growing up in Makarewa and then Wyndham. She describes what she remembers of Wyndham growing up and her schooling and past times. Ailsa talks about the impact of WW2. She then talks of moving to Invercargill and meeting her husband through church and her parents in later life.
Dates:
2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
DAWSON, Henry George (Harry) interviewed by Warrick McCallum
Record Group — Box: 17
Identifier: H0313
Dates:
2000
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
DAWSON, Ian Maurice Joseph interviewed by Judith Thomas
Record Group — Box: 25
Identifier: H0402
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
DAWSON, James Tasman (Jimmy) interviewed by Warrick McCallum
Record Group — Box: 12
Identifier: H0282
Overview
In this interview Jimmy talks of his family history and areas around Southland that he has lived. He talks of his education and employment and details his life, training and work in the AirForce during WW2. He was posted to Canada during this time. After the war he talks of his marriage and career as a builder in Queenstown. His interests include: running, fishing, and beach combing.
Dates:
2000
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
DE CLIFFORD, Catherine Mary (Kitty) interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group — Box: 13
Identifier: H0289
Dates:
2001
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
DE LA MERE, William Lewis (Bill) interviewed by Janice Burton
Record Group — Box: 61
Identifier: H0469
Overview
In this, the first interview undertaken by the Southland Oral History Group, Bill gives details of his family, but then focuses on Holy Trinity Church, which is the Anglican parish in North Invercargill, and was established in 1930. Bill discusses the building, the church hall, fundraising, confirmation, communion and church celebrations.
Dates:
1997
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
DEAKER, Cyril Richard (Dick) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 53
Identifier: H0567
Overview
It was 1960 when Dick Deaker first set foot in Fiordland as a schoolboy introduced to deerhunting expeditions. Three years later, he was back on a more permanent basis having started work as a deer culler in the nearby Takitimu Mountains and the Murchison Mountains/Takahe area. It wasn't long after gaining a private pilot's licence in 1968 that he combined his two great interests — hunting and aviation. By bringing out the deer he shot in his fixed wing Piper Cub, he could sell for a relatively...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
DENNY, Philip John (Phil) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0557
Overview
Farm development was a major government policy in the 1950s and 1960s and the Te Anau Basin underwent the largest South Island scheme across four decades. Although a new kid on the Long Valley Block in 1968, Phil had previously gained stock management experience on a stud farm in Mid-Canterbury. Before that, he had worked on farms across Southland and in Canterbury as a shearer as well as a general hand. In this profile, Phil talks about some of that work experience and focuses on the...
Dates:
2005 - 2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
DEVON, Lavinia Te Rua Huihui interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box: 33
Identifier: H0270
Overview
This interview is part of the Grand Hotel Project. Lavinia worked at the Grand Hotel from 1959 to 1962. She became the second cook under Mrs Dickson.
Dates:
2016
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
DICKIE, Ronald Stevenson interviewed by Richard Savory
Record Group — Box: 39
Identifier: H0378
Dates:
2018
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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