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Elm Court Rest Home [Lorne Hospital]
Record Group
Identifier: A677
Overview
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Dates:
Majority of material found within 1980s - 2007
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
KILLEEN, James Columbian interviewed by Madeline McGilvray
Record Group — Box: 62
Identifier: H0446
Overview
In this interview James gives details of his parents' backgrounds, the village in Galway, Ireland where he was born in 1906 and why he came to New Zealand. James describes leaving Galway in 1929 and his impressions of Invercargill on arriving in 1930. He describes working at the Fortification sawmill before labouring on buildings in Invercargill. He describes working on the Te Anau to Milford highway in very difficult working and living conditions. He notes that three hundred men worked on the...
Dates:
1999
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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