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Whitford Southland Photograph and Postcard Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0492
Dates: 1890 - 1991

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

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

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

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Forrester, Morag 61
Hoskin, Harold Philip (Phil) 6
Wickes, Chrissy 3
Campbell, Jenny 2
Donaldson, John Malcolm 2
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Macdonald, Angus David 2
Baker, Alexander Donald (Donny) 1
Baker, Russell Victor 1
Barker, John Charles 1
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Barnes, Irene Rosslyn 1
Black, William Arthur (Bill) 1
Blatch, Lewis Francis (Lew) 1
Bradley, Kenneth, QSM (Ken) 1
Bradshaw, Rex Lindsay John 1
Brotherston, Peter Alexander 1
Brown, Carol Ann 1
Brown, Errol Albert 1
Brunton, Kenneth Evan 1
Buckingham, Rhys Phillip 1
Burnby, Carley Jean 1
Burrows, Harold Charles (Snow) 1
Campbell, Vernon Barry 1
Campbell, Wilson Cameron 1
Cardno, Frana Grace 1
Carran, Christopher (Chris) 1
Carter, William Jeffrey (Jeff) 1
Chartres, Sheila Mary Jean 1
Chartres, Susan Lynley 1
Cox, Andrew 1
Deaker, Cyril Richard (Dick) 1
Denny, Philip John (Phil) 1
Excell, Robert Alfred (Alf) 1
Excell, Walter Alexander 1
Fraser, Lovat Hugh 1
Galland, George Joseph William (Joe) 1
Gilligan, Kathlyn Anne (Kathy) 1
Gilligan, Terence John (Terry) 1
Gunn, Murray Alexander 1
Harraway, Eoin David (Dave) 1
Hazlett, William Nicoll (Bill) 1
Hutchins, Olive Doreen, Lady 1
King, Colin Maxwell 1
Kirkwood, Thomas Steadman (Tom) 1
Lindsay, Gloria Margaret 1
Lutterell, Jack De Wilton 1
Macfie, Cathy 1
Matthews, Anthony Phillip (Tony) 1
Matthews, Judith Dorothy (Judy) 1
McGhie, James Spence (Jim) 1
McKenzie, John Harvey (Jack) 1
Meredith, Kathleen Joyce 1
Moore, John Hollingsworth, Dr 1
Moss, David Thomas (Dave) 1
Munn, Allan Kenneth 1
Murdoch, John Robert (Jock) 1
Murrell, John Robert (Jack) 1
Neilsen, William David (Bill) 1
Radford, Walter George 1
Ritchie, Ian Andrew 1
Robbie, Valerie Joan (Val) 1
Roberts, Thomas Andrew (Tom) 1
Schofield, Clarence Murray 1
Scoon, Alister Lydon (Allie) 1
Shaw, Hunter John Douglas 1
Slee, Sydney 1
Soper, Lynley 1
Speight, William Allan (Bill) 1
Stroud, Winifred Elsie (Win) 1
Taylor, John Edgar 1
Thomas, Edwin James (Ted) 1
Thomas, Raymond George (Ray) 1
Thompson, Vernon Albert (Vern) 1
Turnbull, Derek Philip Fraser, QSM 1
Tustin, Kenneth Grant 1
Van Tongeren, David 1
Von Tunzelman, John Russell Francis, QSM 1
Watson, Joan Louisa Watson 1
Werner, Lieselotte Renate (Lottie) 1
Willett, Raymond William Herbert (Ray) 1
Williams, Albert Ivan (Snow) 1
Yates, Robert John (Bob) 1
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