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Arthur Leonard [Len] Shepard War Letters Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0009
Dates: Majority of material found within 1915 - 1919

Balneaves and Robertson Family Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0621
Overview This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for further information. The collection contains:- 19 WWI letters to members of the Andrew Balneaves family in Mataura, Southland, from John (Doie) Balneaves, Andrew Ewen (Ewen, Young Un) Balneaves, and William (Billy) Robertson (husband of Annie Balneaves), 1916 - 1918.- One WWI letter from A. Reid (John Alexander) to Uncle (from Mossburn, connection to Balneaves and Robertson...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1916 - 1918

Barnes, Evans Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0691
Processing Information This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.

Contains:

PDF copy of Gunner Stephen Barnes' (WWI 50187) WWI diary 1917 - 1918 (includes photographs of Stephen and family)

JPEG's of Seymour Evans (WWI 43777) WWI Pay Book and JPEG's of military information contained within the standard issued Soldiers Diary
Dates: Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918

Invercargill and Southland Photograph and Postcard Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0291
Overview This collection consists of small donations of photographs and postcards given to the Archive by a number of different donors. They have been arranged and described together into this collection for ease of use.
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1865 - c.1950s

John Hall Collection (Edendale)

 Record Group
Identifier: A0076
Overview Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives Staff for collection details.
Dates: 1882 - 2005

Kapuka Red Cross

 Record Group
Identifier: A0604

Lancelot George Iggo (WWI), and Eric, Charles and Jock Henderson (WWII) War Letters and Photographs

 Record Group
Identifier: A0649
Overview Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. It contains 1 letter from Lancelot George Iggo to his mother, 1918, as well as a number of letters to Dorothy Henderson from her brother Eric, and cousins Jock and Charles Henderson, 1942 - 1944. There are also a small number of photogrpahs featuring Eric as well as newspaper clippings.

Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1918 - 1951

MONTEATH, Robert Ernest interviewed by Nancy Burnett

 Record Group — Box: 23
Identifier: H0320
Overview This interview was recorded as part of the Gorge Road Project. In this interview Robert tells of his family history dating back to grandfather, father and fathers siblings. Robert attended Gorge Road School and Southland Boys High school. He was an axe man representing NZ in 1962 and played rugby for Southern Clubs. He goes onto describe the runnings and workings of Niederers Flax Mill. His family developed their farm at Gorge-Kaupuka South Road. Robert was a contract hay baler for 25 years. He...
Dates: 2017

PATERSON, Hugh interviewed by Richard Savory

 Record Group — Box: 2
Identifier: H0078
Overview Hugh talks of his family history, his siblings’ lives and choices. He talks in detail of farming practices, produce and his return to the farm after his time in World War 2 and the benefits of his attendance of a farming course at Lincoln. He describes his time at war in detail.
Dates: 2009

SODERSTROM, Violet Elizabeth (Peggy) interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

 Record Group — Box: 59
Identifier: H0475
Overview This interview was commissioned by Women's Division of Federated Farmers for a project entitled Pioneer Women. Violet Elizabeth Peggy Soderstrom was born Torquay, England. In this interview Peggy gives her family background - father a teacher at Torquay School of Art. She describes her education at a Convent School run by French Nuns, her first employment and her enlistment as a WREN in 1916 at Torquay. She gives her reasons for coming to New Zealand and mentions the Victorious Scheme for the...
Dates: 1990