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BAKER, Russell Victor interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 53
Identifier: H0568
Overview
The Baker family's connections with the Te Anau Basin go back more than half a century when Russell's father worked on the electrical supplies during the last stages of the Homer Tunnel construction. By 1964 Te Anau had become the family's permanent home and it wasn't long before Russell combined two of his favourite pastimes deer-hunting and aviation. In the late 1960s he was involved in venison recovery as a meathunter and after passing his commercial pilot's licence in 1975 he used fixed...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BARKER, John Charles interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0571
Overview
From a young age, John Barker developed a keen interest in deer hunting around the Gisbome district in which he grew up. But it was the lure of hunting the bigger Fiordland wapiti that inevitably drew him to a job at Milford Sound where his spare time was spent shooting deer and hybrid wapiti in the Fiordland mountains. Not long before his arrival, helicopters had started being used in the venison recovery industry in the same area and by the early 1970s John formed a business partnership which...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BROWN, Errol Albert interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 53
Identifier: H0570
Overview
Errol first arrived in Te Anau from Auckland to work as a ranger for the Fiordland National Park Board in the mid-1960s. He soon discovered that commercial deerhunting, a job for which he had previously gained experience as a Forest Service culler in the North Island, was a more lucrative option. At about the same time, the first helicopter assisted meathunting began in the Te Anau Basin and it wasn't long before Sir Tim Wallis invited Errol to join his deer recovery operation, Luggate Game...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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
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
DEAKER, Cyril Richard (Dick) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 53
Identifier: H0567
Overview
It was 1960 when Dick Deaker first set foot in Fiordland as a schoolboy introduced to deerhunting expeditions. Three years later, he was back on a more permanent basis having started work as a deer culler in the nearby Takitimu Mountains and the Murchison Mountains/Takahe area. It wasn't long after gaining a private pilot's licence in 1968 that he combined his two great interests — hunting and aviation. By bringing out the deer he shot in his fixed wing Piper Cub, he could sell for a relatively...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
EXCELL, Robert Alfred (Alf) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 49
Identifier: H0536
Overview
This is quite a lengthy interview easily divided into three parts, Nightcaps, World War II and Te Anau. Now in his eighties, Alf has good recall of his early years visiting the Te Anau basin in the 1920s as well as those first post-war years when he and Thelma chose to live in what was then still a small settlement. Listening through the interview you will hear descriptive details about some of the long gone people and dwellings that first dotted the water's edge of Lake Te Anau.
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
GUNN, Murray Alexander interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 55
Identifier: H0581
Overview
For most of his life, the Hollyford Valley has played a significant role in Murray's life. As a boy it was a distant place where his father, Davey Gunn, tried to make a living as a high country farmer. On the other side of the country, Murray grew up in Oamaru surrounded by women, his mother, aunt and two sisters. His first visit to the Hollyford was as a schoolboy in the late 1930s when he was one of a party on a walking holiday. The contrast between his home environment and that of his...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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
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
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