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SDC Transfer - Orepuki Young Farmers Club
Record Group
Identifier: A0703
Processing Information
This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives Staff for details of collection content.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940 - 1988
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
STROUD, Winifred Elsie (Win) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 50
Identifier: H0546
Overview
Win is among the few remaining people who grew up in the Te Anau Basin when it was still considered remote and inaccessible with land covered in tussock and scrub that was only useful for grazing stock. As the youngest child of Henry F. Blatch, runholder of Lynwood Station (originally gazetted as the Te Anau Lake Run 301B) between 1906 and 1951, Win recalls a childhood of walks and picnics in the Basin as well as some of the events that dramatically changed the lives of her immediate family and...
Dates:
2005
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project