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BRUNTON, Kenneth Evan interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0578
Overview
Evan's boyhood interest in deer hunting around Waimate led him, at the age of twenty-one, to apply for a job as government culler in the Te Anau Basin. Two seasons for the Forest Service were followed by several years as a shooter involved in the venison recovery industry in southern New Zealand. For almost a decade, he and his wife and children were based at Martins Bay on the Fiordland west coast before moving, in 1983, to start a new deer farm on the outskirts of Te Anau. This recording...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BUCKINGHAM, Rhys Phillip interviewed by Chrissy Wickes
Record Group — Box: 18
Identifier: H0325
Overview
In this interview Rhys talks of his interest and passion for discovering kakapo and kokako in Fiordland and on Stewart Island. He details various expeditions and the work that he has done and the many people he has worked alongside. Telling of their strengths and passion for what they were doing and the successes he and others had.
Dates:
2017
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
CARTER, William Jeffrey (Jeff) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0572
Overview
From an early age, Jeff Carter's driving ambition was to spend his time hunting deer, rabbits and possums that roamed the hills and mountain passes of southern New Zealand. Despite being cajoled into taking up a more stable occupation in motor mechanics, it was hunting that proved the enduring option especially as it developed into a financially lucrative one in the early 1970s.
Bounty was to be had in the venison recovery industry in Fiordland and the reserves and basins adjacent to the...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
COX, Andrew (Andy) interviewed by Chrissy Wickes
Record Group — Box: 22
Identifier: H0394
Overview
This interview looks at Any Cox's involvement in the early days of kakapo recovery programme in Stewart Island and Fiordland and elsewhere.
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
MUNN, Allan Kenneth interviewed by Chrissy Wickes
Record Group — Box: 19
Identifier: H0323
Overview
This interview focuses on the kakapo recovery project in which Allan was involved. In this interview Allan details his work for NZ Wildlife Service in particular with Kakapo. The catching of the birds on Rakiura and their release on Little Barrier Island, as well as the ongoing work to increase numbers. He talks about the harm caused by predators e.g., cats as well as the areas throughout NZ the birds can be found and the people involved in saving them.
Dates:
2017
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
TUSTIN, Kenneth Grant interviewed by Phil Hoskin
Record Group — Box: 44
Identifier: H0461
Dates:
2021
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WATSON, Joan Louisa interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0171
Overview
In this interview Joan explains how she and her husband Rex knew Dr. Geoffrey Orbell and their discovery of Takahē in Fiordland. She also talks of their subsequent expeditions’ with Dr. Fowler and Jack Sorenson to study the birds; And the publishing of articles about the discovery in papers and magazines throughout the world e.g. National Geographic and Time Magazine.
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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