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DAWSON, Ailsa Ruth interviewed by Jenny Campbell

 Record Group
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
Identifier: H0313
Dates: 2000
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

DAWSON, Ian Maurice Joseph interviewed by Judith Thomas

 Record Group
Identifier: H0402
Dates: 2019
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

DAWSON, James Tasman (Jimmy) interviewed by Warrick McCallum

 Record Group
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

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Identifier: H0289
Overview Kitty discusses and describes her family history, growing up in Riverton, her family’s bakery business, and the social/recreational activities available. She also covers life during WW2, employment, sporting interests, marriage and the Riverton regatta.
Dates: 2001
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

DE LA MERE, William Lewis (Bill) interviewed by Janice Burton

 Record Group
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

Deep Cove Hostel Committee

 Record Group
Identifier: A0044
Dates: Majority of material found within 1978 - 1983
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives

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
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

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