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CHARTRES, Sheila Mary Jean interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 47
Identifier: H0525
Overview In this interview Jean describes her early life in Waipukurau, meeting her husband Harold and moving to Manapouri Station. She talks about home life on the farm and raising a family. Jean was involved in setting up the first school at Mararoa. She goes on to describe life in the district, the people and social activities, the arrival of electric power, and farming. Harold and Jean moved to Te Anau in 1974 and she concludes the interview talking about the changes she has witnessed and the...
Dates: 2004

CHARTRES, Susan interviewed by Lynley Soper

 Record Group — Box: 33
Identifier: H0250
Overview In this interview Susan talks about family history, the purchase of their farm and her schools in detail. She covers subjects such as social occasions in the woolshed the food served and the music that was played. Susan recalls local history around The Key, Te Anau and Manapouri including: live deer recovery by helicopter and fishing.
Dates: 2016

COX, Andrew (Andy) interviewed by Chrissy Wickes

 Record Group — Box: 22
Identifier: H0394
Overview This interview looks at Any Cox's involvement in the early days of kakapo recovery programme in Stewart Island and Fiordland and elsewhere.
Dates: 2019

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

DENNY, Philip John (Phil) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0557
Overview Farm development was a major government policy in the 1950s and 1960s and the Te Anau Basin underwent the largest South Island scheme across four decades. Although a new kid on the Long Valley Block in 1968, Phil had previously gained stock management experience on a stud farm in Mid-Canterbury. Before that, he had worked on farms across Southland and in Canterbury as a shearer as well as a general hand. In this profile, Phil talks about some of that work experience and focuses on the...
Dates: 2005 - 2006

DONALDSON, John Malcolm interviewed by Phil Hoskin

 Record Group — Box: 46
Identifier: H0462
Dates: 2021

DONALDSON, John Malcolm interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0562
Overview In 1965, as Te Anau faced a surge in population due to two major government construction projects in the district, John Donaldson saw an opportunity to set up his own pharmacy business in the town. A lean-to built onto another shop on the main street was the start of a 31-year tenure as Te Anau's pharmacist during which time he was also involved in the community's first ambulance service as well as its high school and local council. All of these topics are discussed through the interview during...
Dates: 2006

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

FRASER, Lovat Hugh interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 53
Identifier: H0563
Overview A retired farmer, Lovat has experienced life on very different rural properties in the Te Anau Basin. As a child he and his brothers grew up amid the tussocks and sheep of a small pastoral run, The Gorge. During his early married life, he experienced farming in eastern Southland and at Mossburn until 1970 when he was one of the successful applicants of the ballot system for the government's new farm settlements in the Te Anau Basin. During this interview Lovat gives a personal account of the...
Dates: 2006

GALLAND, George Joseph William (Joe) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 47
Identifier: H0524
Overview In this interview Joe talks about his early life in Otago, Waikouaiti and then Dunedin. On leaving school Joe took up shearing. Joe then recounts his experiences of WWII in some detail. Joe served in the air force and was prisoner of war from 1943 to the end of the war, after his plane was shot down in Egypt. On his return Joe married and took on a lease for Elmwood Station at The Key. Initially Jo grew fescue, which was exported to the US, and made more money than sheep. Joe goes on to...
Dates: 2003 - 2004

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