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Whitford Southland Photograph and Postcard Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0492
Dates:
1890 - 1991
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
WILLETT, Raymond William Herbert (Ray) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0575
Overview
More than fifty years ago Ray first set eyes on the Fiordland Mountains while doing a tour of his adopted homeland. As a child growing up in war-time London, he immigrated to New Zealand in 1953 on the cusp of his seventeenth birthday to work on a dairy farm in Northland. Captivated by that first visit to Te Anau and Milford Sound, Ray and his wife, Helen, have lived in the Te Anau area since 1961, with only a five-year separation from the Fiordland Mountains when they worked as managers of a...
Dates:
2009
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WILLIAMS, Albert Ivan (Snow) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 55
Identifier: H0582
Overview
Born the youngest of four sons, Snow's early teens were shadowed by events in Europe. His older brothers on active service during WWII, he left school at the age of fourteen to help out on the family farm in North Otago. Post-war, he continued working as a farmhand on various properties throughout North Otago. A spell of employment with an Oamaru-based limeworks company led to his introduction to Te Anau where lime was extracted from a local site for use on the goverrnment's farm development...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
YATES, Robert John (Bob) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 49
Identifier: H0539
Overview
In this interview Bob describes growing up in Christchurch and Kaikoura. After a brief stint in the NZRAF Bob went into farming and in 1960 he and his young family moved to Te Anau where he took on a role as a farm manager for Lands and Survey. In his first position he ran the Kakapo Block. After a stint in Canterbury, Bob and his family returned to Te Anau, this time as a field officer on the Takatimu Block. Bob talks about the development of farming in the Te Anau Basin, the ballot system and...
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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