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Whitehead Household School [Waikawa]
Record Group
Identifier: A0479
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914 - 1926
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Whitford Southland Photograph and Postcard Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0492
Dates:
1890 - 1991
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Wild Bush School [Waipango]
Record Group
Identifier: A0478
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1886 - 1946
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
WILD, Eric Richard interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group
Identifier: H0284
Overview
In this short interview, Eric describes his time in the home guard in Tokonui at the start of World War II, when Eric was aged 16. Eric talks of being taught manoeuvres, morse code and semaphore. Eric joined the army at age 20, which ended his involvement with the home guard. In the second interview, Eric describes the early days farming at Longlands near Fortrose, including the crops grown and the people who worked on the farm.
Dates:
2004 - 2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WILDERMOTH, Violet May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0474
Overview
In this interview Violet recalls family history, education, her apprenticeship as a Tailoress and Invercargill history e.g., the building of the Stead Street Bridge in 1922, steam boats on the Estuary, her father becoming Mayor of South Invercargill Borough and her marriage.
Dates:
1991
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WILKES, June Alice and Ronald Stormont interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group
Identifier: H0216
Overview
This interview was recorded as part of the Discovering Glengarry's Community Spirit Oral History Project. In this interview Ron talks about his memories of school where he was a first day pupil at Surrey Park School. Then he and June recall building their home in Glengarry, their neighbours and the community, which was made up mostly of young families. They recall their memories of the Glengarry Shopping Centre and a shop Ron opened there selling fruit, vegetables, milk shakes etc.
Dates:
2014
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WILLETT, Raymond William Herbert (Ray) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0575
Overview
More than fifty years ago Ray first set eyes on the Fiordland Mountains while doing a tour of his adopted homeland. As a child growing up in war-time London, he immigrated to New Zealand in 1953 on the cusp of his seventeenth birthday to work on a dairy farm in Northland. Captivated by that first visit to Te Anau and Milford Sound, Ray and his wife, Helen, have lived in the Te Anau area since 1961, with only a five-year separation from the Fiordland Mountains when they worked as managers of a...
Dates:
2009
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WILLIAMS, Albert Ivan (Snow) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 55
Identifier: H0582
Overview
Born the youngest of four sons, Snow's early teens were shadowed by events in Europe. His older brothers on active service during WWII, he left school at the age of fourteen to help out on the family farm in North Otago. Post-war, he continued working as a farmhand on various properties throughout North Otago. A spell of employment with an Oamaru-based limeworks company led to his introduction to Te Anau where lime was extracted from a local site for use on the goverrnment's farm development...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WILLIAMS, Peter Francis Bell interviewed by Gordon Duston
Record Group
Identifier: H0666
Dates:
2024
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WILLIAMSON, Margery interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group
Identifier: H0130
Overview
In this interview Margery covers family history from her Grandparents forward. She tells of her childhood, siblings, growing up, friends and education. She shares memories of school days, teachers, favourite subjects, friends and attending Salvation Army Church. Margery left school at 13 and a half and gained employment at Strang’s first making jelly then making tins and gives some detail of this. She also talks of ration books and how they worked during the war. She left Strang’s after working...
Dates:
2012
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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