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HAZLETT, William Nicholl (Bill) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 50
Identifier: H0547
Overview
Before the government undertook a major farm development programme in the Te Anau Basin between the 1950s and 1980s, the scattered large leasehold runs were in the hands of individuals/families. The Hazlet family of Invercargill took up the Burwood, Centre Hill and Mavora Runs in the 1920s but it wasn't until the estate became the responsibility of Bill's father (also named Bill) in the late 1940s that major developments were pioneered with the help of the newly introduced system of...
Dates:
2005
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
HUTCHINS, Olive Doreen interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 51
Identifier: H0550
Overview
For about twenty years, Olive was a member of the Board of Directors of Real Journeys (formerly trading as Fiordland Travel Ltd), one of New Zealand's largest tourist operators. Her late husband, Les Hutchins, was instrumental in shaping and developing tourism in Fiordland from small beginnings in 1954 to the multi-million dollar industry it has become in 2005.
In this profile, Olive describes the changes she has witnessed from life on a farm in Myross Bush, bringing up a young family on the...
Dates:
2005
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Invercargill and Southland Photograph and Postcard Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0291
Overview
This collection consists of small donations of photographs and postcards given to the Archive by a number of different donors. They have been arranged and described together into this collection for ease of use.
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1865 - c.1950s
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Invercargill and Southland/Otago Maps and Plans Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0006
Overview
This collection consists of small donations of maps and plans given to the Archive by a number of different donors. They have been arranged and described together into this collection for ease of use.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1870 - 1960
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
KING, Colin Maxwell interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0558
Overview
As a young teenager, Colin left school to pursue his ambition to become a farmer. Starting out at Lynwood Station as a farmhand, he eventually worked on various large properties throughout the southern South Island; mustering, shearing, ploughing and learning first hand what farm work involved. By his mid-twenties, he was married with a young family and on his own small farm back home in Greenhills. The family moved to Castlerock and eventually to the Lillbum Valley where for more than...
Dates:
2005 - 2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
KIRKWOOD, Thomas Steadman (Tom) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0561
Overview
Forty years ago the Te Anau Basin underwent dramatic change as a result of some large government projects. The country's biggest farm development scheme had begun in the Te Anau Basin the previous decade, but its real effects on the landscape and community was not apparent until the 1960s and 1970s. As a farm manager and field officer for the Department of Lands & Survey during that time, Tom recalls what was involved in the development of the area he was appointed to oversee - the...
Dates:
2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
LINDSAY, Gloria Margaret interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 49
Identifier: H0538
Overview
Gloria has lived in Manapouri for nearly sixty years. One of only a handful of residents, she left Dunedin to join her husband, George Lindsay, who worked for several years as guide and launchmaster for Les Murrell's small tourism operation on Lake Manapouñ and Doubtful Sound. It was eventually taken over by Les Hutchins and became the starting point for the successful company, Fiordland Travel Ltd. In her interview Gloria tells of her early life in Dunedin and what it was like moving to...
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
LUTTRELL, Jack De Wilton interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 51
Identifier: H0552
Overview
One of the New Zealand team members seconded to Colonel Howard for the 1949 expedition was former government deer culler, Jack Luttrell. He had worked a couple of years earlier for the Wildlife Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs culling red deer in the Haast district of the West Coast. He also took part in a reconnaissance survey of Fiordland in 1948 in preparation for the Howard expedition. Now in his 70s, Mr Luttrell, has a clear memory of those earlier years hunting in much of what...
Dates:
2005
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
MACDONALD, Angus David interviewed by Phil Hoskin
Record Group — Box: 46
Identifier: H0463
Dates:
2021
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
MACDONALD, Angus David interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 49
Identifier: H0540
Overview
In this interview David talks about his early life at The Plains Station at The Key and boarding at Waihi School and Christ's College. He then went on to work on the station. He describes the change in farm use from growing fescue to focussing on sheep and cattle. The Plains Station went on to be divided in 1969 into three runs for David and his two older brothers to farm. The section David took was called Davaar, which he continued to run until 2002, when he and his wife moved to a property at...
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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