Bluff (N.Z.)
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BRADSHAW, Rex Lindsay John interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0551
Overview
Rex grew up in the 1930s on Stewart Island surrounded by the sea and people whose lives were ruled by the tides and the weather. Despite his mothers’ efforts to prevent him going into an industry that had taken the lives of some of her immediate family, Rex spent nearly 50 years making a living from the seas around his childhood home and along the Fiordland Coast. He remembers a time when crayfish were considered not worth catching. In this profile he gives an account of those early days and...
Dates:
2004