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HOWDEN, Malcolm Graham (Mac) interviewed by Richard Savory

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Identifier: H0360
Overview In this interview Mac tells of his family’s early history. He recalls his family’s involvement in during WW1. His parents purchased a farm at Seaward Downs in 1926. Mac recalls his education. After schooling, he started work on the family farm as his brother served in WW2 in Europe and the Pacific. Mac discusses farming at this time as well as general living. On his brother’s return, Mac went to work at a dairy factory. Later his brother took over one of their uncle’s farms and Mac took over...
Dates: 2018
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

HOWDEN, Violet May interviewed by Richard Savory

 Record Group
Identifier: H0361
Overview In this interview Violet recalls her family’s history in the Otago/South Otago area. She gives a detailed history of her mother’s family. Violet recalls her grandfather going to France and the being wounded at the Somme during WW1. When he came home, he farmed at Pine Bush. She recalls her memories of growing up at Pine Bush, attending school, and the polio epidemic. She talks of her memories of WW2 - the young men in the district going to war, food rationing and how her mother made their own...
Dates: 2018
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

HUBBER, David Winston interviewed by Gordon Duston

 Record Group
Identifier: H0638
Dates: 2024
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

Hubert [Bert] Earle Denny Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0718
Processing Information This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for full details of collection content.

It contains one fishing diary, dated 1905-1906.

Diary has mention of incident where Christopher Shears was lost overboard from the ketch Endor (under Captain Roderique) between Dusky Sound and Chalky Inlet on the 31st March 1906 during a fishing trip to the West Coast.

Includes catch numbers and prices.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1905-1906
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives

HUGHES, Denis Frank interviewed by Dianne Glennie

 Record Group
Identifier: H0670
Dates: 2025
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

HUGHES, John Stanley interviewed by Diane Glennie

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Identifier: H)686
Dates: 2025
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

HUGHES, Milton (Minty) interviewed by Madeline McGilvray

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Identifier: H0449
Overview Minty Hughes was born in Otautau in 1911. In this interview Minty discusses his father and his work in the flax mill at Pukemaori and his mother's home near Monkey Island, Orepuki. He describes travelling by steamer to Port Craig in 1923 and attending school there. Minty talks about the sawmills at Port Craig, transporting the logs, the Percy Burn viaduct, loading the boats with timber, a brief history of the Craig family and how the settlement got its name. He mentions his job as whistle boy...
Dates: 1998
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

HUMPHRIES, Arthur Leonard interviewed by Alva Faul

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Identifier: H0444
Overview Arthur Humphries was born in Mataura in 1922. In this interview he describes his schooling at Tuturau School, training with the RNZAF and having lived at Tuturau, Rotorua, Canada, England and Invercargill. He summarises his interests in local government, education, farming, golf, tennis, bowls, fishing, hiking, the Masonic Lodge and the Justice of the Peace Association. He mentions marrying Doreen in 1946 and having two daughters and one son. He describes his long-term involvement with the...
Dates: 1999
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

HUTCHINS, Olive Doreen interviewed by Morag Forrester

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Identifier: H0550
Overview For about twenty years, Olive was a member of the Board of Directors of Real Journeys (formerly trading as Fiordland Travel Ltd), one of New Zealand's largest tourist operators. Her late husband, Les Hutchins, was instrumental in shaping and developing tourism in Fiordland from small beginnings in 1954 to the multi-million dollar industry it has become in 2005. In this profile, Olive describes the changes she has witnessed from life on a farm in Myross Bush, bringing up a young family on the...
Dates: 2005
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

Iggo - Henderson Collection

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Identifier: A0649
Overview Processing Note: Arrangement and description is in progress.

Collection contains 1 letter from Lancelot George Iggo to his mother, 1918, as well as a number of letters to Dorothy Henderson from her brother Eric, and cousins Jock and Charles Henderson, 1942 - 1944. There are also a small number of photogrpahs featuring Eric as well as newspaper clippings.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1918 - 1951
Found in: Invercargill City Council Archives

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Federated Farmers of New Zealand. Women's Division 2
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