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STILES, Raewyn Dorothy interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box: 34
Identifier: H0273
Overview
This interview is part of the Grand Hotel Project. In this interview Raewyn talks in detail about her Grandfather, Willaim Holding, who came to New Zealand from England in 1923. William was a joiner and a sign writer as well as a talented painter and amateur photographer. He served in WWI and WW2. He did strongman acts and was a wrester. In 1954 he did a painting for the Queen's visit to Invercargill and Raewyn recounts the story of how he held up the painting from the veranda of a shop across...
Dates:
2016
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
