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BAXTER, Sylvia Muriel Mathilde interviewed by Maree Wilks
Record Group — Box: 27
Identifier: H0408
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
SHAVE, Norma Irene Annetta interviewed by Rangimaria Suddaby and Shona Fordyce
Record Group — Box: 17
Identifier: H0113
Overview
Norma recalls her education and employment at a Thornbury farm, leisure activities e.g. fly fishing, dances, growing vegetables, learning to drive and doing the drivers licence test. At the age of 12 Norma decided she wanted to be a nurse and put her name down to become a nurse at Kew Hospital aged 20/21. She goes on to give an account of a fire at Kew Hospital in August 1939, the evacuation of patients and the repurposing of Lorne Hospital for patients. In 1950 she travelled to London to work...
Dates:
2012
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
SMITH, Charlotte Anne Lindsay (Nan) interviewed by Lloyd Esler
Record Group — Box: 8
Identifier: H0156
Overview
Nan discusses and describes her family history: her father and grandfather settling in NZ and making a life here; her education first at Spar Bush school then at Southland Girls High. She talks of her memories of the depression and farm conditions at this time. When she left school she qualified as a nurse in 1936. Nan recalls and mentions wartime Invercargill e.g. ration books, petrol rationing, Park Hospital and the purchase of her Vauxhall 12 car for £300.00. Nan worked for ten years at Park...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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