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BRAND, Esther Mary interviewed by Margaret Ann Irving

 Record Group — Box: 8
Identifier: H0236
Dates: 2004

BUCKINGHAM, Greta Margaret interviewed by Tessa Smith

 Record Group — Box: 43
Identifier: H0457
Dates: 2021

BUCKINGHAM, Kenneth James interviewed by Kathryn Summers

 Record Group — Box: 33
Identifier: H0251
Overview In this interview Kenneth talks of his family history and Grandparents journey to NZ in the 1860s and eventually settling in the Waikawa Valley. He talks of the importance his grandfather put on education and details the education of his father and himself and his love of playing sport. He goes on to discuss travel he has undertaken and farming methods of the time e.g., dairying, the use of horses and gelignite. He talks of living conditions and how his father had the only car in the district...
Dates: 2016

CHARTRES, Sheila Mary Jean interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 47
Identifier: H0525
Overview In this interview Jean describes her early life in Waipukurau, meeting her husband Harold and moving to Manapouri Station. She talks about home life on the farm and raising a family. Jean was involved in setting up the first school at Mararoa. She goes on to describe life in the district, the people and social activities, the arrival of electric power, and farming. Harold and Jean moved to Te Anau in 1974 and she concludes the interview talking about the changes she has witnessed and the...
Dates: 2004

CHISHOLM, Robert John interviewed by Ann McKenzie

 Record Group — Box: 28
Identifier: H0190
Overview In this interview Robert tells of his family history, his earliest memories of home aged 2 years, family life, education as well as local history around the Tokanui/Waikawa area. His first job was driving a tractor aged 14. He became ill with rheumatic fever. He goes on to tell of marriage, children and working for a carrying company, Southland County – Roading – and engineers Jones-Graham Hyde. He also talks about Chisholm Bros., and his work on constructing roads in the area. His interests...
Dates: 2013

DUFFY, Catherine Mary interviewed by Nancy Burnett

 Record Group — Box: 22
Identifier: H0264
Overview This interview is part of the Gorge Road Collection. In this interview Mary talks of her family history and immigration from Ireland. Her family moved to a farm close to the Waituna Lagoon. She describes Kapuka South School, transport to school, classroom setup and general school day of the era. The family had an orchard in Roxbourgh. Mary began playing the piano when at secondary school and details her various experiences playing in the community. She goes on to describe the family farm,...
Dates: 2016

FAVEL, Annie Keturah interviewed by Dickon John Milnes

 Record Group — Box: 57
Identifier: H0618
Overview Annie Favel was born in Edendale in 1909. Gives details about the history and location of her family farm and other dairy farms in the area. Mentions dairy factories at Seaward Downs and Edendale. Describes the Ayrshire cows, the milking process, the milking season, milking both by hand and with machinery and making butter. Describes the effect of World War I and the Depression on the farm and community. Describes the house, gardens, farm buildings, farm equipment and windmills on the farm....
Dates: 1998

FERGUSON, Wendy Patricia Evelyn by Cathy Macfie

 Record Group — Box: 41
Identifier: H0419
Overview This interview covers Wendy's family's history in Otatara and her upbringing on a farm. Wendy talks about her husband and his accidental death in a car crash. She also talks about the Otatara community throughout her life.
Dates: 2020

FOSTER, William Russell (Bill) by Gordon Duston

 Record Group — Box: 43
Identifier: H0442
Dates: 2021

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

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