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COLLINSON, Ellen Mary Wenham (Nellie) interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

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Identifier: H0377
Overview Nellie was 95 at the time of this interview. She talks about her parents coming to New Zealand from the UK and arriving in Bluff. Her father was involved in the building part of the hospital in Invercargill when it was sited in Dee Street, the Mataura freezing works and the Royal Mail Hotel in Lumsden. Her mother, Grace Wilson, was very good at needlework. Nellie talks about her school days and games played as a child. On leaving school, Nellie went to work for H&J Smiths. She then nursed...
Dates: 1993
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

Community recipe books

 Record Group
Identifier: A0624
Processing Information This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.Southland Women's Club - Executive Entertains, undatedFloral Art Society - Dash of Difference, undatedSouthland MS Society - Quick and Easy Recipes, undatedSouthland Plunket-Karitane Hospital - Family Tea Dishes, 1978Gladstone Scout Mothers' Committee - Recipe Rendezvous, undatedKennington Courts Project...
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1978 - 1989
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives

COOK, Robert Keith interviewed by Anne McCracken

 Record Group
Identifier: H0434
Dates: 2021
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

COOPER, Sandra Mary (Sandy) interviewed by Gordon Duston

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Identifier: H0683
Dates: 2025
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

COPELAND, Margaret interviewed by Judith Thomas

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Identifier: H0016
Overview This is an extensive interview that covers Margaret’s memories of her family history, growing up in George Street and the history of Windsor. She covers early transport, social and recreational activities, food preparation, household chores and her passion for gardening. Education and employment history; illnesses of the time i.e. Influenza epidemic and diphtheria, challenges of building a home after the war with the lack of materials.
Dates: 2008
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

COSTIGAN, Leslie James (Les) interviewed by Seona Craig

 Record Group
Identifier: H0235
Overview This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Les tells of his employment at the Awarua Station where he lived in the hostel. He describes having to practice Morse code, the receiving and transmitting processes on older radio equipment, and receiving messages from ships all over the world. His job included manning the disaster watch for large ships using Morse code to provide safety for life at sea. He also describes Mayday calls. In 1974 he...
Dates: 2015
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

COTTER, Paul John and MUNRO, Barry Russell interviewed by Seona Craig

 Record Group
Identifier: H0232
Overview This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Paul and Barry recall and describe their experiences working for NZ Post Office as Radio Operators based at Awarua Radio, with some time each spent on the Chatham Islands and at Milford Sound. They also recall some of the emergency situations they were involved in e.g., distress calls from fisherman, steamships in distress and a call from a Frenchman sailing solo around the world. They describe the...
Dates: 2015
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

COWIE, Andrew Findlay interviewed by June Trotter

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Identifier: H0036
Overview This interview covers family history, property, family gatherings and growing up in a large extended family on the farm. Findlay talks of his education through to secondary school and his return to employment on the farm. He talks of the crops/seeds and early farming machinery and technologies. During the war Findlay was an Air Force mechanic and after the war he talks of marriage and returning to farming life.
Dates: 2006
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

Cowley and Co Funeral Directors

 Record Group
Identifier: A0537
Dates: Majority of material found within 1930 - 1949
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives

COX, Andrew (Andy) interviewed by Chrissy Wickes

 Record Group
Identifier: H0394
Overview This interview looks at Any Cox's involvement in the early days of kakapo recovery programme in Stewart Island and Fiordland and elsewhere.
Dates: 2019
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

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Invercargill (N.Z.). City Council 2
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