Abstract of Lavinia Te Rua Huihui DEVON, 2023
Item — Box: 33
Identifier: H02700002
Abstract
LAVINIA TE RUA HUIHUI DEVON
Interviewer: Rebecca Amundson
Abstractor: Barbara Gillam
Interview Date: 31 July 2016
Track 1
0.30 How she got the job at THE GRAND HOTEL
1.20 Duties whilst there were no vacancies. Became SECOND COOK.
2.20 Mrs DICKSON, the head cook
3.10 COLIN HARPER also worked there.
3.50 STAFF QUARTERS.
6.00 NELLIE McINTOSH worked as a cook and they are still in touch.
8.00 Managers lived at the hotel.
10.20 Played UKELELE
12.09 Her husband did the 6 O'CLOCK SWILL
TRACK 2
0.25 Reunion in 1997
1.02 Worked at the hotel from 1959 to 1962
04.33 Met husband in 1959 when he had a girlfriend.
5.50 Brought up on family estate 15 miles from TAPANUI. Taken over by MAORI AFFAIRS.
7.10 Children, MICHAEL born 1962, twin girls died 1964, EDMUND born 1966, MOANA born 1971.
8.45 Son is a TANKER DRIVER for FONTERRA
11.21 Married 54 years
12.30 No uniforms at the hotel.
INTERVIEW ENDS
Interviewer: Rebecca Amundson
Abstractor: Barbara Gillam
Interview Date: 31 July 2016
Track 1
0.30 How she got the job at THE GRAND HOTEL
1.20 Duties whilst there were no vacancies. Became SECOND COOK.
2.20 Mrs DICKSON, the head cook
3.10 COLIN HARPER also worked there.
3.50 STAFF QUARTERS.
6.00 NELLIE McINTOSH worked as a cook and they are still in touch.
8.00 Managers lived at the hotel.
10.20 Played UKELELE
12.09 Her husband did the 6 O'CLOCK SWILL
TRACK 2
0.25 Reunion in 1997
1.02 Worked at the hotel from 1959 to 1962
04.33 Met husband in 1959 when he had a girlfriend.
5.50 Brought up on family estate 15 miles from TAPANUI. Taken over by MAORI AFFAIRS.
7.10 Children, MICHAEL born 1962, twin girls died 1964, EDMUND born 1966, MOANA born 1971.
8.45 Son is a TANKER DRIVER for FONTERRA
11.21 Married 54 years
12.30 No uniforms at the hotel.
INTERVIEW ENDS
Dates
- 2023
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Extent
From the Record Group: 1 folder(s)
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- From the Record Group: Amundsen, Rebecca (Interviewer, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Southland Oral History Project Repository
