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DICKSON, Lindsay interviewed by Judith Thomas
Record Group — Box: 25
Identifier: H0407
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
McLEOD, Andrew Bain interviewed by Margaret Ann Irving
Record Group — Box: 8
Identifier: H0141
Overview
In this interview Andrew describes and details his education, joining the Woodlands Rabbit Board, and later working at the Fortification saw mill; describing the workings of the mill and the living conditions. After the war he became a contractor which led him and Jack Scarlet to design an elevator to load fertilizer as well as a winch and crane to shift gear on the back of the truck. In 1952 he brought the family farm, farming dairy and sheep until 1977, when he sold up and went to work at the...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
