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DICKSON, Ivy May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box: 38
Identifier: H0376
Overview
Ivy talks about her family and childhood. She recalls looking after the family cows as a child. She worked at the Underwood Sugar of Milk factory after leaving school. After a housefire at their property in Makarewa, Ivy and her husband William John and their four children moved to Edendale. She recalls the biggest change in her life was the instillation of electricity.
Dates:
1991
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
DICKSON, Lindsay interviewed by Judith Thomas
Record Group — Box: 25
Identifier: H0407
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
FAVEL, Annie Keturah interviewed by Avis McDonald
Record Group — Box: 24
Identifier: H0351
Overview
In this interview Annie talks about her grandfather John Gordon, who came to New Zealand, via Australia and married Ann Munro. They settled in Edendale where Annie grew up. She talks of her early relatives and makes some comments on home life, including chores and church.
Dates:
1999
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
HOWDEN, Malcolm Graham (Mac) interviewed by Richard Savory
Record Group — Box: 37
Identifier: H0360
Dates:
2018
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
HOWDEN, Violet May interviewed by Richard Savory
Record Group — Box: 37
Identifier: H0361
Dates:
2018
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
McLEOD, Andrew Bain interviewed by Margaret Ann Irving
Record Group — Box: 8
Identifier: H0141
Overview
In this interview Andrew describes and details his education, joining the Woodlands Rabbit Board, and later working at the Fortification saw mill; describing the workings of the mill and the living conditions. After the war he became a contractor which led him and Jack Scarlet to design an elevator to load fertilizer as well as a winch and crane to shift gear on the back of the truck. In 1952 he brought the family farm, farming dairy and sheep until 1977, when he sold up and went to work at the...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
PICKNEY, Bernard Eyre Interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box: 56
Identifier: H0502
Dates:
1994
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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