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COLLINSON, Mary Ellen Wenham (Nellie) interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box: 24
Identifier: H0377
Overview
Nellie was 95 at the time of this interview. She talks about her parents coming to New Zealand from the UK and arriving in Bluff. Her father was involved in the building part of the hospital in Invercargill when it was sited in Dee Street, the Mataura freezing works and the Royal Mail Hotel in Lumsden. Her mother, Grace Wilson, was very good at needlework. Nellie talks about her school days and games played as a child. On leaving school, Nellie went to work for H&J Smiths. She then nursed...
Dates:
1993
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
FRASER, Margaret Interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box: 44
Identifier: H0452
Dates:
1993
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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