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STIRLING, John Alexander (Jack) interviewed by Jane Craske
Record Group — Box: 31
Identifier: H0229
Overview
This interview looks at Jack’s family history around Wyndham-Waimahaka-Fortrose. The family farm was called ‘Alameda’. Jack details and describes his early memories of his education, the polio epidemic and its affects, jobs he did on the farm and farming types and practices e.g. sheep sharing, transporting of stock. He looks at the changes to farming and the district after WW2 and social life of the time e.g. football, dances, floundering, whitebaiting, eeling and car types.
Dates:
2015
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
