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HARRAWAY, Eoin David (Dave) interviewed by Kenneth Bradley
Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0573
Overview
Dave spent about eighteen years working as a shepherd and farm manager in the remote back country ranges between Mossburn and Te Anau before and after the government's 30-year farm development scheme in the same region. This interview looks at the changes Dave experienced working for an individual runholder whose attachment to, and investment in, the Burwood/Mavora/Centre Hill area could not compete with the government agency that by 1966 had bought the rights to the leasehold properties and...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project