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DONALDSON, John Malcolm interviewed by Phil Hoskin
Record Group — Box: 46
Identifier: H0462
Dates:
2021
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
GILLIGAN, Kathlyn Anne (Kathy) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 47
Identifier: H0527
Overview
In this interview Kathy talks about her early years in Timaru and Invercargill. After leaving school Kathy worked for an accountancy firm. On her first visit to Te Anau in 1953 she met Terry Gilligan who had just started a transport business in the town. They were married in 1957 and Kathy moved to Te Anau. Conditions in the town at that stage were very different from Invercargill. Kathy found work in the local post office exchange and for Fiordland travel and in 1960 she became involved in the...
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
GILLIGAN, Terence John (Terry) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 47
Identifier: H0528
Overview
In this interview, Terry outlines the history of his family in New Zealand. His Grandfather was Ernie Govan who leased the Te Anau Hotel and administered the Milford Track. Terry's early years were spent in Mossburn but due to ill health he also spent time in Te Anau. Terry took over his father's transport business in 1953. The business prospered due to the increased activity in the Te Anau area and in 1964 he amalgamated the business into Northern Southland Transport, where he stayed until...
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
GUNN, Murray Alexander interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 55
Identifier: H0581
Overview
For most of his life, the Hollyford Valley has played a significant role in Murray's life. As a boy it was a distant place where his father, Davey Gunn, tried to make a living as a high country farmer. On the other side of the country, Murray grew up in Oamaru surrounded by women, his mother, aunt and two sisters. His first visit to the Hollyford was as a schoolboy in the late 1930s when he was one of a party on a walking holiday. The contrast between his home environment and that of his...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
HUTCHINS, Olive Doreen interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 51
Identifier: H0550
Overview
For about twenty years, Olive was a member of the Board of Directors of Real Journeys (formerly trading as Fiordland Travel Ltd), one of New Zealand's largest tourist operators. Her late husband, Les Hutchins, was instrumental in shaping and developing tourism in Fiordland from small beginnings in 1954 to the multi-million dollar industry it has become in 2005.
In this profile, Olive describes the changes she has witnessed from life on a farm in Myross Bush, bringing up a young family on the...
Dates:
2005
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
KIRKWOOD, Thomas Steadman (Tom) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0561
Overview
Forty years ago the Te Anau Basin underwent dramatic change as a result of some large government projects. The country's biggest farm development scheme had begun in the Te Anau Basin the previous decade, but its real effects on the landscape and community was not apparent until the 1960s and 1970s. As a farm manager and field officer for the Department of Lands & Survey during that time, Tom recalls what was involved in the development of the area he was appointed to oversee - the...
Dates:
2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
MACDONALD, Angus David interviewed by Phil Hoskin
Record Group — Box: 46
Identifier: H0463
Dates:
2021
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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