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BAKER, Alexander Donald (Donny) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 48
Identifier: H0533
Overview
Donny is one of a handful of residents in the Te Anau basin who can provide first hand accounts of the life and times of the district as far back as the 1930s. As he said off-tape, it is difficult to give a complete picture of events in just a couple of hour’s conversation. However, his comments and come of his early photographs illustrate much of a bygone era.
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BARNES, Clifford Henry (Cliff) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0559
Overview
The son of a shearer who worked in the Te Anau Basin during the 1940s, Cliff's first introduction to the district was in 1945. Since then he has developed extensive knowledge of the deer-run hinterland as well as the craggy coastline of the southern fiords where he spent many years both as fisherman and tourism operator. In this interview, Cliff remembers traditional skills such as blade-shearing and oyster-catching as well as forming a small tourism business in Doubtful Sound. He also talks...
Dates:
2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BARNES, Irene Rosslyn interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0560
Overview
A resident of Manapouri for more than forty years, Irene has played an active role in the community, initially because of her parental involvement in the local schools and later as a local government representative. In addition to bringing up their five children, Irene also worked alongside her husband during the years he operated his own charter boat tour guide business in Doubtful Sound. Latterly, as well as local government issues she was also a representative on the Guardians of the...
Dates:
2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BROTHERSTON, Peter Alexander interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 50
Identifier: H0544
Overview
Peter's immediate environment, as a young child, was the granite, tree-covered mountains and clear waters of the Hollyford Valley. As a youth and into early adulthood it was the tussock country of the Te Anau Basin that he frequented. He was also among the early contract staff to carry out the initial task of levelling swathes of shrub and bush so that it could become productive agricultural soil. Leaving for a few years to live further south, Peter returned and worked for the Fiordland...
Dates:
2005
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BURNBY, Carley Jean interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 48
Identifier: H0531
Overview
In this interview Carley talks about growing up in Gore and her first experiences visiting Fiordland from the age of 10. Carley talks about her nursing training and meeting husband George, who she married in 1951. Not long after their marriage they moved to Fiordland and lived at Cascade Creek. They moved into Te Anau so that their eldest son could attend primary school and Carley started a Bed and Breakfast. George took up fishing and was away a lot so Carley got a job as a radio operator....
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BURROWS, Harold Charles (Snow) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 48
Identifier: H0534
Overview
"Snow" Burrows is the eldest child of one the founding members of the Fiordland Travel Company, Lawson Burrows. A book by Lawson entitled "Te Anau Anchorage" gives a personal history of what led to the creation of the company in its early years before it was sold in 1966. In this interview Snow gives his own account of living and working in Te Anau and Fiordland from the 1940s to the present day.
Dates:
2004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
CAMPBELL, Vernon Barry interviewed by Phil Hoskin
Record Group — Box: 46
Identifier: H0460
Dates:
2020
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
CAMPBELL, Wilson Cameron interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 48
Identifier: H0530
Overview
In this interview, Wilson recounts his early life in the Catlins and Balcultha. Wilson started his first business at the age of 16, selling fruit and produce from Central Otago to retailers in Gore. Wilson then recounts his time in the air force during WWII. At the end of the war Wilson and his wife Verna moved to Te Anau. Wilson became involved in local tourism. He describes a plan he came up with for a ski field on Mt Luxmore. He recalls how he and Lawson Burrows discovered the glow worm...
Dates:
2003 - 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
HALLIDAY, Mervyn (Merv) interviewed by Philip Hoskin
Record Group — Box: 60
Identifier: H0516
Dates:
2022
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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