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Wallacetown School

 Record Group
Identifier: A0426
Dates: Majority of material found within 1873 - 1954
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

Walter Peak School

 Record Group
Identifier: A0427
Dates: Majority of material found within 1922 - 1930
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

Walter Sutherland Tompkins Postcard Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0625
Content Description These two postcards came from the postcard collection of Walter Sutherland Tompkins. W.S. Tompkins was born in Mangaweka 1901 to Ernest Walter Tompkins and Catherine Jane (nee Cockburn). Many of the family aunts and uncles would send Walker postcards for his Birthday, Christmas or just to let him know they were thinking of him. Walter was a great collector of postcards and had approx. 100 in total. The two donated to the Invercargill City Archive are the two speicfically identified as being...
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1910 - 1911
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

War Newsclippings Scrapbook Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0098
Dates: Majority of material found within 1914 - 1946
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

WARBURTON, Warren Gilbert interviewed by Beth Cairns

 Record Group — Box: 62
Identifier: H0470
Overview In this interview, Warren, who was born in Invercargill in 1921, recalls his childhood in the suburb of Heidelberg and his schooling. He mentions local small farms, Chinese gardeners, rabbiting and ferrets. Warren discusses home deliveries of bread, fish and milk. He talks about playing cricket and being a junior representative. He describes going to the Dunedin Exhibition in 1926. Warren talks about the drowning of his brother Len in 1925 while rowing on the estuary. He also mentions that his...
Dates: 1998
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

WARBURTON, Warren Gilbert interviewed by Maree Wilkes

 Record Group — Box: 27
Identifier: H0400
Dates: 2019
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

WARDEN, Gregory Francis interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box: 22
Identifier: H0195
Overview This interview covers Gregory's early life in London and his time working and travelling in Europe and his move to New Zealand and then discusses living in Glengarry from the 1980s.
Dates: 2014
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

WARREN, Dorothy May interviewed by Gill Poplur

 Record Group — Box: 14
Identifier: H0280
Overview In this interview Dorothy covers many and varied topics including: historical buildings around Invercargill, the Gap Road Flax Mill, her education and the school frame work of the time, the Depression, preparations for war and hearing news of the war via the radio and cinema. As well as her social interests, marriage, life in the Winton Community and hobbies, which include antiques and genealogy. Dorothy established and managed the school Canteen at Central Southland College.
Dates: 2017
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

WATSON, Helen Anne interviewed by Judith Thomas

 Record Group — Box: 61
Identifier: H0518
Dates: 2022
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

WATSON, Joan Louisa interviewed by Jenny Campbell

 Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0171
Overview In this interview Joan explains how she and her husband Rex knew Dr. Geoffrey Orbell and their discovery of Takahē in Fiordland. She also talks of their subsequent expeditions’ with Dr. Fowler and Jack Sorenson to study the birds; And the publishing of articles about the discovery in papers and magazines throughout the world e.g. National Geographic and Time Magazine.
Dates: 2007
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

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Southland (N.Z.) 313
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World War, 1939-1945 120
Photographs 115
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Fiordland (N.Z.) 86
Riverton (N.Z.) 71
Te Anau (N.Z.) 70
Farm life 67
In the Wake of the Pioneers: Fiordland Museum Trust Oral History Project 63
Central Southland (N.Z.) 53
Northern Southland (N.Z.) 47
Church records and registers 42
Sheep Farming 42
Otago (N.Z.) 41
Sports -- Clubs 38
Nursing 36
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Discovering Glengarry's Community Spirit Oral History Project, 2014 21
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Awarua Communications Museum Oral History Collection, 2014- 18
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Southland (N.Z.) -- Flood, 1984 17
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"About Us Voices of Southland" Oral History Project, 2011 15
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Rugby Union football 15
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West Otago Oral History Collection, 2010 - 15
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1984 Southland Flood Oral History Project, 2009 14
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Women's Suffrage Oral History Project (Celebrating 125 years), 2018 14
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Gorge Road Oral History Collection, 2014- 10
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Amundsen, Rebecca 71
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Thomas, Judith 24
Duston, Gordon Thomas 19
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McCracken, Anne Elizabeth 13
Savory, Richard 13
Hoskin, Harold Philip (Phil) 11
McCallum, Warrick Linn 11
Craig, Seona 10
McDonald, Avis Jennifer 10
Wadds, Lee 10
Esler, Lloyd 9
Irving, Margaret Ann 9
Grove, Lynne 8
Dawson, Ailsa Ruth 7
Lietze, Joy 7
McKenzie, Paula 7
Smith, Pamela 7
Wickes, Chrissy 7
Bailey, Vanya 6
Cairns, Beth 6
Craske, Jane 6
Henderson, Virginia 5
Poplur, Gill 5
Conradson, Patricia 4
McCallum, Merren 4
McGilvray, Madeline Rae 4
Presbyterian Church 4
Smith, Tessa 4
Wilks, Maree 4
Dixon, Ngarita Helen 3
Faul, Alva Mary 3
Lampitt, Chrissy 3
McDougall, Margaret 3
McFarland, Paulette 3
Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn (Liz) 3
Redhead, Valmai 3
Ayson, Peter Leicester 2
Bailey, Mae Florence 2
Baxter, Sylvia Muriel Mathilde 2
Booth, Vincent Paul 2
Chisholm, Robert John 2
Dillner, Jennifer Jane (Jenny) 2
Donaldson, John Malcolm 2
Favel, Annie Keturah 2
Federated Farmers of New Zealand. Women's Division 2
Fordyce, Shona 2
Goldup, Renee 2
Harvey, Joan 2
Invercargill (N.Z.). City Council 2
Macdonald, Angus David 2
McConechy, Graham Spencer 2
McHutchon, Gloria Elaine 2
McKay, Helen Margaret 2
McKenzie, Ann 2
Milnes, Dickon John, Dr 2
Nuttall, Louis Norman (Lou) 2
Pritchard, William John (Jack) 2
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association. RSA 2
Stoddart, Edith Anne 2
Thompson, Margaret Evelyn 2
Tou, Lisa Essetera 2
Warburton, Warren Gilbert 2
Ward, Patricia Kay 2
West, Victor Clyde 2
White, Senga 2
Williamson, Wendy 2
Woller, Steven (Steve) 2
Young, Lynette 2
Adams, Fiona Melissa 1
Allan, Margaret 1
Allan, Robert Bruce (Carter) 1
Allison, Thomas 1
Amos, Rubina Mary (Ruby) 1
Anderson-Horrell, Ruth 1
Arnett, Jane Mere 1
Arnold, Mary isabel Patterson 1
Aronsen, Gwenith Dawn (Gwen) 1
Ashby, Ronald William (Ron) 1
Ashwell, Harold Francis 1
Ashwell, Reginald George 1
Aspinall, Phyllis May 1
Aurik, Johanna (Hanny) 1
Austin, William Rex 1
Ayson, Peter Douglas Giffen 1
Bailey, Maureen Dorothy 1
Baker, Alexander Donald (Donny) 1
Baker, Russell Victor 1
Balan, Virgina Elena (Gina) 1
Ballantyne, Colin Stewart 1
Barker, John Charles 1
Barnes, Clifford Henry (Cliff) 1
Barnes, Irene Rosslyn 1
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