Interviewee: Dorothy May Warren

Interviewer: Gil Poplur

Abstracter: Gil Poplur

Date of First Interview: 23 January 2017

Track 1

00.0 Recording agreement

01.38 Grew up in INVERCARGILL CITY; Attended MIDDLE SCHOOL to Standard 6 and then SOUTHLAND TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

03.00 Depression events

05.00 Food for household

07.00 Playthings

08.00 War news via radio, cinema

08.40 School desks, writing utensils

09.35 Class numbers

09.50 School trenches

10.48 Class divisions

11.20 SOUTHLAND TECHNICAL COLLEGE

12.00 Expectations for girls

14.0 Applying for a job, hours of work

Track 2

00.0 Wages, travel to work, finances

01.02 Movies and dances, firemen’s roles

04.40 Marriage preparation, marriage, housing

06.20 BOWMONT STREET house, SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL

06.59 To WINTON, WINTON community

08.00 Farming, Dorothy’s hobbies: Antiques, Genealogy

10.00 Differences between raising family and following personal interests

12.00 Establishing and managing CENTRAL COLLEGE SCHOOL CANTEEN

Track 3

00.0 CENTRAL COLLEGE SCHOOL CANTEEN

02.00 Interest in lifelong learning

03.30 20 years running farmlet (5 day week) while husband worked on STEWART ISLAND

06.00 Values that help her in her life

06.50 DOROTHY’S interest in MAORI history and colonisation

Track 4

00.0 Chores when she was a child growing up

Track 5

00.0 WORLD WAR II highlights as a child

02.00 Rationing of goods

02.30 WILLY’S WHIPPET car owned by DOROTHY and husband; community sharing

05.50 Neighbour’s peg leg story

08.30 CONON STREET SWIMMING POOL

09.40 BROWN OWL RESTAURANT and clothing to wear there

10.40 DUTCH migration to SOUTHLAND

13.20 POLIO outbreak

14.30 Mentioned husband involved in MANAPOURI POWER STATION

14.40 GAP ROAD FLAX MILL one of the last to close

Track 6

00.0 GAP ROAD FLAX MILL

00.38 1978 Plight of sheep in INVERCARGILL

02.10 100 YEAR FLOOD

03.00 DEE STREET MATERNITY HOSPITAL

03.40 Flood in early 1940s

05.22 BIG FREEZE IN INVERCARGILL

07.18 New KEW HOSPITAL compared to old hospital. DOROTHY favours the latter

Date of Second interview: 2 February 2017

Track 7

00.0 Recording information

00.29 Dorothy’s ancestry

06.40 Earliest childhood memories of family home

07.45 Games played

08.24 School bankbook saving

09.04 Teachers note

10.45 Family life and celebrations. BLUFF REGATTA. BLUFF YACHT CLUB

13.24 family discipline, punishments

Track 8

00.0 Discipline continued

00.19 SUNDAY events and religion generally

03.12 School discipline

05.12 School choral concerts

07.15 School trenches during World War II

08.22 Air raid shelter built by father for civil defence

10.43 Meeting husband and honeymoon

13.00 Houses Dorothy lived in

14.00 Late primary school manual training

Track 9

00.0 Manual training continued

00.59 Working as a teacher aide

02.40 How Dorothy came to the teacher aide position

03.37 FAITH TE AU – A MAORI PRINCESS. Friendship with her. The rainbow village at TI WAI