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CATHCART, Mary Jane interviewed by Judith Thomas

 Record Group — Box: 29
Identifier: H0411
Dates: 2019
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

DAWSON, Ailsa Ruth interviewed by Jenny Campbell

 Record Group — Box: 11
Identifier: H0265
Overview In this interview Ailsa talks about growing up in Makarewa and then Wyndham. She describes what she remembers of Wyndham growing up and her schooling and past times. Ailsa talks about the impact of WW2. She then talks of moving to Invercargill and meeting her husband through church and her parents in later life.
Dates: 2006
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

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

HARRIS, Muriwai Janet Dawn interviewed by Cathy Macfie

 Record Group — Box: 24
Identifier: H0401
Dates: 2019
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

McKEE, Dougall Alfred interviewed by Richard Savory

 Record Group — Box: 36
Identifier: H0346
Overview In this interview Doug talks about his family and his father’s work as a builder and the need for Doug to be taken out of school to work for him as a young boy due to being unable to get labour. He goes onto of his interest in metalwork and career as a mechanic working first for A. Russell & Co and then Gormak Wilkes Davidson. He chats about the various models of cars and also the cars he owned. He later worked for Vernon Russell building bikes with modified motors. Learnt how to do this by...
Dates: 2018
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

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