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HOSKINS, Dorothy Anne interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box: 10
Identifier: H0073
Overview In this interview Dorothy talks of her early family history, life and memories. She gives a detailed description of her father working for the Hokonui Rabbit Board; and goes on to describe her education and later training as a Homecraft teacher. Dorothy includes a description of domestic life when she was growing up, her interest in Judo and stock-car racing, and the effects of the 1984 floods on her extended family.
Dates: 2009
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

Independent Order of Odd Fellows - Pride of Bluff Rebekah Lodge Number 16

 Record Group
Identifier: A0548
Dates: Majority of material found within 1933 - 2000
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

Independent Order of Odd Fellows - Star of Bluff Lodge Number 96

 Record Group
Identifier: A0547
Dates: Majority of material found within 1911 - 1989
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

KING, Colin Maxwell interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0558
Overview As a young teenager, Colin left school to pursue his ambition to become a farmer. Starting out at Lynwood Station as a farmhand, he eventually worked on various large properties throughout the southern South Island; mustering, shearing, ploughing and learning first hand what farm work involved. By his mid-twenties, he was married with a young family and on his own small farm back home in Greenhills. The family moved to Castlerock and eventually to the Lillbum Valley where for more than...
Dates: 2005 - 2006
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

Konini School

 Record Group
Identifier: A0263
Dates: Majority of material found within 1959 - 1987
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

LEASK, Meri Eileen interviewed by Vanya Bailey

 Record Group — Box: 62
Identifier: H0593
Dates: 2022
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

LOVETT, Bailey Ann interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box: 6
Identifier: H0055
Overview This interview was recorded as part of the About Us Voices of Southland collection. In this interview Bailey gives a description of Bluff life and activities e.g. Oyster Festival. She discusses her family’s connection with fishing, her early education and studying to become a Marine Biologist and what this entailed. Bailey describes experiences such as studying shell fish, shark tagging and research on whales, dolphins, sharks and seals.
Dates: 2011
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

METZGER, Nicholas Graham (Tiny) interviewed by Lloyd Esler

 Record Group — Box: 5
Identifier: H0143
Overview Tiny tells of his education from primary through to night class, where he did a carpentry apprenticeship. This lead to employment building Government houses - commercial buildings - country jobs. He goes on to talk in detail about the Mutton Bird Islands, the requirements needed to participate in the mutton bird season e.g. the processing, storage, making of the kelp storage bags, and the cooking of them. He describes in detail the islands, the management and laws relating to them,...
Dates: 2008
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

St. Matthew's Anglican Church (Bluff)

 Record Group
Identifier: A0563
Dates: 1863 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1870; Majority of material found within 1899 - 1982
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

St Teresa's School (Bluff)

 Record Group
Identifier: A0452
Dates: 1901 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1955; c.1974
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

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