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THOMAS Raymond George (Ray) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0580
Overview
From a young age, Ray knew that he wanted to become a sheep farmer. After leaving school he completed tertiary studies in commerce and agriculture at Lincoln College. Having also got married to the daughter of a farmer, he went on to work at her family's farm near Riversdale before securing a position as shepherd in the Moa Flat area. It was there that Ray and Ruth decided to apply for a balloted farm under the government's citizen settlement scheme which ran for almost thirty years until the...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
THOMAS, Thomas Andrew (Tom) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 51
Identifier: H0554
Overview
The Roberts family connections with Te Anau span almost one hundred years as it was Tom's grandfather, Captain Thomas Roberts, who first laid roots in what was a remote settlement in 1906. As skipper for the government steamer, Tawera, there is already printed documentation about Captain Roberts and his years spent in Te Anau. This interview, therefore only touches lightly on Tom's ancestors. The focus is more on the achievements made by Tom and his brother, Ted Roberts, in the local building...
Dates:
2005
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
THOMPSON, Vernon Albert (Vern) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 53
Identifier: H0566
Overview
Vernon Thompson has been hunting wild deer since boyhood. A rapid rise in deer numbers in the south by the late 1950s meant he and his brothers, Bill and Nelson, were able to turn a weekend interest into a commercial enterprise. At first, using boats built in their fathers woolshed, the Thompson boys kept within the Lake Monowai and southem coastal areas. But increasing competition pushed Vernon to move to Te Anau where he was able to work as a groundhunter on the lake shores as well as those...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
TURNBULL, Derek Philip Fraser interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 49
Identifier: H0535
Overview
Although Derek lives outside of the Te Anau Basin, he is one of the few people who met and worked with David Gunn, leaseholder of Martins Bay and the Hollyford Valley which he farmed, mainly as a cattle run. He was also the first tour operator through the valley. This interview focuses on Derek’s early experiences in the Hollyford and while there’s a summary of other key events in Derek’s’ life, they are only lightly touched upon.
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
TURNER, John Frederick Interviewed by Philip Hoskin
Record Group — Box: 60
Identifier: H0517
Dates:
2022
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
VON TUNZELMAN, John Russell Francis interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 48
Identifier: H0532
Overview
In this interview John talks at length about his family origins in Estonia and the lives of his forebears who came to New Zealand in the 1850s. John was born in Otautau and moved to Dunedin after he started primary school. John’s family later moved to Waitati and it was here that John’s involvement with deer hunting started. John started with the Forest service in 1959 and in the early 1960s John and his wife Aloma moved to Te Anau. As well as hunting, John describes his role in search and...
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WATSON, Joan Louisa interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0171
Overview
In this interview Joan explains how she and her husband Rex knew Dr. Geoffrey Orbell and their discovery of Takahē in Fiordland. She also talks of their subsequent expeditions’ with Dr. Fowler and Jack Sorenson to study the birds; And the publishing of articles about the discovery in papers and magazines throughout the world e.g. National Geographic and Time Magazine.
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WERNER, Lieselotte Renate (Lottie) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0579
Overview
Fifty years ago, Lottie boarded ship at a Dutch port bound for Wellington. She and her fellow passengers were New Zealand immigrants under the government's assisted passage scheme for displaced persons following the end of WWII. Embarking on a new life with the help of her first employers, Sir Matthew and Lady Oram, Lottie quickly adapted to the New Zealand lifestyle. A few years later, she crossed the Tasman but unable to adjust to the hot South Australian summers, she returned to New Zealand....
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WILLETT, Raymond William Herbert (Ray) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0575
Overview
More than fifty years ago Ray first set eyes on the Fiordland Mountains while doing a tour of his adopted homeland. As a child growing up in war-time London, he immigrated to New Zealand in 1953 on the cusp of his seventeenth birthday to work on a dairy farm in Northland. Captivated by that first visit to Te Anau and Milford Sound, Ray and his wife, Helen, have lived in the Te Anau area since 1961, with only a five-year separation from the Fiordland Mountains when they worked as managers of a...
Dates:
2009
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
WILLIAMS, Albert Ivan (Snow) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 55
Identifier: H0582
Overview
Born the youngest of four sons, Snow's early teens were shadowed by events in Europe. His older brothers on active service during WWII, he left school at the age of fourteen to help out on the family farm in North Otago. Post-war, he continued working as a farmhand on various properties throughout North Otago. A spell of employment with an Oamaru-based limeworks company led to his introduction to Te Anau where lime was extracted from a local site for use on the goverrnment's farm development...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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