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Bluff (N.Z.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

BARNES, Irene Rosslyn interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 52
Identifier: H0560
Overview A resident of Manapouri for more than forty years, Irene has played an active role in the community, initially because of her parental involvement in the local schools and later as a local government representative. In addition to bringing up their five children, Irene also worked alongside her husband during the years he operated his own charter boat tour guide business in Doubtful Sound. Latterly, as well as local government issues she was also a representative on the Guardians of the...
Dates: 2006

Bluff Cemeteries

 Record Group
Identifier: A0048
Dates: Majority of material found within 1961 - 1991

Bluff School

 Record Group
Identifier: A0139
School status Open school [1867 - present]
Dates: Majority of material found within 1882 - 1989

Bluff School Pupils

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH03170004
Dates: 1929

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