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LINDSAY, Edna Jane Smith interviewed by Madeline McGilvray
Record Group — Box: 62
Identifier: H0448
Overview
In this interview, Edna, who was born in Myross Bush in 1923, gives details about her parents and their occupations. She discusses school, punishment, going to town (Invercargill), first Pakeha settlers, the Fergusons, Reverend Bethune, sports days at John Kerr's, the Post Office at Mrs Baird's, church and Sunday School, the bus service and food supplies. She talks about draft horses, ploughing matches, harvesting, rabbits, card evenings, the community ball, building the Memorial Hall, the...
Dates:
1998
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
ROBBIE, Elizabeth Ann interviewed by Cathy Macfie
Record Group — Box: 61
Identifier: H0591
Overview
Ann talks family history, employment, interest and involvement in bag pipes and the Pipe Band, and incidents in her life that helped to form her beliefs and her commitment to being an advocate for vulnerable people. She became the first female Qualified Horticulturalist Arborist in NZ. She details her varied employment record and employers, marriage and family. Ann tells of the crippling interest rates in the 1980s and impacts on their farming. She goes on to tell of the hardships faced when...
Dates:
2022
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
TURNER, Ann Clark interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box: 44
Identifier: H0371
Overview
This interview was commissioned by Women's Division of Federated Farmers for a project entitled Pioneer Women. In this interview, Ann talks about how her family came to New Zealand from England on the Scimitar. She talks about early life in Lowburn, in Central Otago. Ann went to school in Invercargill and then she worked at Mt Pisa Station. She talks about rabbitting, farm life and her large family.
Dates:
1990
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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