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ASHWELL, Harold Francis interviewed by Gail Jefferies
Record Group — Box: 35
Identifier: H0317
Overview
In this interview Harold talks of family education and employment. He goes on to give a detailed account of mutton birding – the life cycle of the birds, their habitat, the process of retrieving them, the preparation of the birds for storage and eating, landing on the rocks to start with and now being helicoptered in. He tells of the accommodation on the Islands and how they have been modernised and the ownership of the Islands. He also discusses the early history and interactions of Māori and...
Dates:
2001
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
ASHWELL, Reginald George interviewed by Pat Christiansen
Record Group — Box: 38
Identifier: H0368
Overview
Reginald Ashwell was born in Bluff in 1914. In this interview, Reginald iscusses his children, parents, grandparents and kaumatua. He mentions that his wife Peg worked in the Bluff Theatre. He talks about being in the army and World War II. Reginald discusses oysters, muttonbirding and the Irwin's (Urwin's) Fishing Company. He talks about the Stewart Island ferries, the harbour and Bluff shops in the 1920s and discusses his hobby of making walking sticks and woodwork.
Dates:
1998
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BARNES, Irene Rosslyn interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0560
Overview
A resident of Manapouri for more than forty years, Irene has played an active role in the community, initially because of her parental involvement in the local schools and later as a local government representative. In addition to bringing up their five children, Irene also worked alongside her husband during the years he operated his own charter boat tour guide business in Doubtful Sound. Latterly, as well as local government issues she was also a representative on the Guardians of the...
Dates:
2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BRADSHAW, Rex Lindsay John interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 51
Identifier: H0551
Overview
Rex grew up in the 1930s on Stewart Island surrounded by the sea and people whose lives were ruled by the tides and the weather. Despite his mothers’ efforts to prevent him going into an industry that had taken the lives of some of her immediate family, Rex spent nearly 50 years making a living from the seas around his childhood home and along the Fiordland Coast. He remembers a time when crayfish were considered not worth catching. In this profile he gives an account of those early days and...
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
HOSKINS, Dorothy Anne interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box: 10
Identifier: H0073
Overview
In this interview Dorothy talks of her early family history, life and memories. She gives a detailed description of her father working for the Hokonui Rabbit Board; and goes on to describe her education and later training as a Homecraft teacher. Dorothy includes a description of domestic life when she was growing up, her interest in Judo and stock-car racing, and the effects of the 1984 floods on her extended family.
Dates:
2009
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
KING, Colin Maxwell interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0558
Overview
As a young teenager, Colin left school to pursue his ambition to become a farmer. Starting out at Lynwood Station as a farmhand, he eventually worked on various large properties throughout the southern South Island; mustering, shearing, ploughing and learning first hand what farm work involved. By his mid-twenties, he was married with a young family and on his own small farm back home in Greenhills. The family moved to Castlerock and eventually to the Lillbum Valley where for more than...
Dates:
2005 - 2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
LEASK, Meri Eileen interviewed by Vanya Bailey
Record Group — Box: 62
Identifier: H0593
Dates:
2022
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
LOVETT, Bailey Ann interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box: 6
Identifier: H0055
Overview
This interview was recorded as part of the About Us Voices of Southland collection. In this interview Bailey gives a description of Bluff life and activities e.g. Oyster Festival. She discusses her family’s connection with fishing, her early education and studying to become a Marine Biologist and what this entailed. Bailey describes experiences such as studying shell fish, shark tagging and research on whales, dolphins, sharks and seals.
Dates:
2011
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
METZGER, Nicholas Graham (Tiny) interviewed by Lloyd Esler
Record Group — Box: 5
Identifier: H0143
Overview
Tiny tells of his education from primary through to night class, where he did a carpentry apprenticeship. This lead to employment building Government houses - commercial buildings - country jobs. He goes on to talk in detail about the Mutton Bird Islands, the requirements needed to participate in the mutton bird season e.g. the processing, storage, making of the kelp storage bags, and the cooking of them. He describes in detail the islands, the management and laws relating to them,...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
TOU, Maiatua interviewed by Lisa Essetera Tou
Record Group — Box: 7
Identifier: H0062
Overview
In this interview Maiatua talks of his early life, family, education and Sunday School on Mitiaro in the Cook Islands. He goes onto recall arriving in Auckland, his first impressions and employment and moving to Bluff to work at Ocean Beach and Alliance Freezing works. He talks of his life highlights and the building of a holiday home in Raratonga.
Dates:
2011
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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