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COPELAND, Margaret interviewed by Judith Thomas
Record Group
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
Record Group
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
COYLE, David John interviewed by Joy Lietze
Record Group
Identifier: H0189
Overview
In this extensive interview David recalls his family history and life; World War 2, education and in employment. He goes in to detail about his employment in the timber industry in Tapanui covering aspects from the sawmills through to the selling of the timber off shore.
Dates:
2013
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Creative Fibre Southland
Record Group
Identifier: A0471
Dates:
[no date]
Found in:
Invercargill City Council Archives
CRIGHTON, Gordon John (Jack) interviewed by Seona Craig
Record Group
Identifier: H0230
Overview
This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Jack recalls and describes his employment. First as a telephone operator at Waimahaka Post Office before transferring to the Lines Department in 1950 During the war he spent 3 years in the Air Force as a radio operator. As an employee of the Lines department Jack worked in various areas of Southland becoming a foreman after 6 years. He enjoyed his work and details what it in entailed e.g., putting up...
Dates:
2015
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
CRIMP, Rema Doreen (Tersh) interviewed by Judith Thomas
Record Group
Identifier: H0417
Dates:
2020
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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