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Letters to Children
Record Group
Identifier: A0722
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This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for full details of collection content.11 letters from New Zealand authors Margaret Mahy, Joy Cowley and Beverley Dunlop, UK author Shirley Hughes, and the Royal Secretaries for the Queen Mother and Prince and Princess of Wales. Written in response to children writing to them during annual class book week. Adressed to pupils at Southland schools Clifden, Elston Lea, and St Theresa's, as well as...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1983 - 1989
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
LEWIS, David interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group — Box: 33
Identifier: H0246
Overview
In this interview, David talks about his time as the gardener looking after the extensive grounds of the Riverton Hospital in from 1977 into the early 1990s when the hospital was sold to become a private elderly care home. David describes his duties and some of the other staff at the hospital who would help him.
Dates:
2016
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
LIDDELL, Adrian Rex interviewed by Gordon Duston
Record Group — Box: 35
Identifier: H0319
Overview
This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. Adrian starts his interview describing his apprenticeship as an electrician before joining the Post office where he worked setting up and maintaining exchanges e.g., in Christchurch, Milford Sound and Stewart Island. He details the Stewart Island exchange.
Dates:
2017
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
LIETZE, Sadie May interviewed by Joy Lietze
Record Group
Identifier: H0058
Overview
In the first interview Sadie talks of her early life, education, health and family on a dairy farm on the Otago Peninsula. After leaving school Sadie attended Dunedin Tech and studied art, English, and maths for 2 years. Her family moved to Burke where Sadie found employment. During the war years Sadie joined the NZ Women’s Land Service where she worked in Omarama and Kelso. When in Kelso she met her husband. She goes onto to talk about her family and involvement in the women’s section of...
Dates:
2011
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Lillburn School
Record Group
Identifier: A0267
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1913 - 1919
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Limehills Netball Club
Record Group
Identifier: A0014
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1926 - 2001
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Limehills School
Record Group
Identifier: A0268
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1876 - 1954
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Limestone Plains School
Record Group
Identifier: A0269
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1883 - 1927
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
LINDSAY, Beryl Eileen Madge interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group
Identifier: H0132
Overview
In this interview Beryl shares her family history and stories from her life. These start with her early life in Roxburgh and Lumsden. Beryl discusses her family's purchase of their farm at Gropher’s Bush, her education, childhood games, employment and marriage to Graham. When they married, they had hens and a cow and Beryl made her own butter. During WW2 Graham was in the Home Guard and Beryl was involved with the local Patriotic Society and knitted for the soldiers, sent food parcels overseas...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
LINDSAY, Edna Jane Smith interviewed by Madeline McGilvray
Record Group — Box: 62
Identifier: H0448
Overview
In this interview, Edna, who was born in Myross Bush in 1923, gives details about her parents and their occupations. She discusses school, punishment, going to town (Invercargill), first Pakeha settlers, the Fergusons, Reverend Bethune, sports days at John Kerr's, the Post Office at Mrs Baird's, church and Sunday School, the bus service and food supplies. She talks about draft horses, ploughing matches, harvesting, rabbits, card evenings, the community ball, building the Memorial Hall, the...
Dates:
1998
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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