Reginald George Alexander MCLEOD

Interviewed by Gill Poplur

DISK 1

Track 1

03.08 Snippets from the 1940s: Ash cart and dustman

04.28 Corporation horse yard

04.48 milkman

05.27 meat safe

06.04 milk monitor

08.18 Pleasure Bay activities

09.46 old fisherman and sewerage

11.57 Free coal

13.33 Policeman

13.52 Joinery factory

Track 2

00.0 Policeman and police cells

01.20 Air raid shelter. Trenches

03.08 Shop on the corner of Clyde and Crinan Streets

04.28 First day and 1947 day at school

07.30 Games

08.30 Bullying

11.06 Rugby, Pirates Club 1946ish

13.38 How Reg became an electrician

Track 3

00.0 1952 Beginning as an electrician

04.38 1956 4ZA radio station

07.40 Praise for boss, rewiring Southland Times. Time out.

08.48 Bluff Island Harbour work

11.20 Mataura Paper Mills work 1960s

12.30 High voltage distribution. Work philosophy

14.12 Fan heaters in bathrooms

Track 4

00.0 Fan heaters and common sense

01.40 school incidents Unintentional arson

03.34 Fatalities

10.41 Steps to becoming chief inspector at 28 yrs old

DISK 2

Track 1

00.0 Helping police, CIB, drug squad with their work 1988-1996

Track 2

00.0 Helping police (continued) Talk at Electrical Institute

06.35 Electrical Inspectors

07.47 Disciplined as electrical apprentice

10.40 Pirates Rugby 1969ish. Helping children

Track 3

00.0 Pirates Rugby (ctd) Reasons for team’s demise

03.20 Affects of women on club

06.10 Difficulties with committee, professionalism

07.34 Bluff oysters 1940s

09.02 Train to Gore, Balfour wartime. Finding cigarettes

11.48 Celebrations end of WW2 12.22 Invercargill – Gore train, bus

13.10 Swaggies

13.47 buses

Track 4

00.0 Gore. Getting into trouble with Gran

03.00 Electrician for sawmill Story re Japanese after 2nd WW.

05.23 Blood donor

DISK 3

Track 1

01.50 Farming: Binders, Haystacks, traction engine. Burning gorse, Draught horses. Damming to make house water supply.

13.12 Gas producers 2nd WW

Track 2

00.0 Gas producers continued

01.46 school

03.05 Maori oven

04.50 Estuary concrete breakwater

06.35 Fishing. ‘Mud’ from tile making

08.50 gravel contractor

12.07 story re yacht ‘overturning’

Track 3

Reg’s time as an electrician/inspector

Track 4

00.0 Fan heaters, school heaters. Electricial accidents to attend

11.00 Steps in Reg’s electrical career

Track 5

00.0 Loosening railway carriages. School discipline. Spelling. Trade drawing. Standards

08.20 Rugby. All Black contacts

12.48 Neon Signs

DISK 4

Track 1

00.0 Neon signs continued

04.50 Biggest electrical changes TRS TPS

Track 2

Gran’s discipline. Swing bridge, bees, jam covers

Track 3

1984 Flood Electrical workers’ incidents during

Track 4

00.0 Completion of 1984 flood

10.30 Kingston Flyer steam engine travelling. Railway prices

Track 5

Kingston Flyer engine being rescued (continued from track 4)