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Bluff (N.Z.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

Grant Postcard and Photograph Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0637
Overview Processing Note: This collection has been partially arranged and described. A large amount of unprocessed material remains in Accession ICF70. Contact Archives staff for details.Contains 204 digital copies of black and white and colour postcards from around Invercargill and Southland. Includes Estuary, Botanic Gardens, Tay, Dee and Esk Streets, Cathedral, Hospitals, Post Office, Oreti Beach, Town Hall, views from Water Tower, Thomson's Bush, Makarewa Bush,...
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1910 - 2000

Greenhills School

 Record Group
Identifier: A0228
Overview Processing Note This collection has been partially arranged and described. A small amount of unprocessed material remains in Accessions ICA01.004 and ICE34. Contact Archives staff for details.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1889 - 2001

HOSKINS, Dorothy Anne interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 10
Identifier: H0073
Overview In this interview Dorothy talks of her early family history, life and memories. She gives a detailed description of her father working for the Hokonui Rabbit Board; and goes on to describe her education and later training as a Homecraft teacher. Dorothy includes a description of domestic life when she was growing up, her interest in Judo and stock-car racing, and the effects of the 1984 floods on her extended family.
Dates: 2009

Hubert [Bert] Earle Denny Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0718
Processing Information This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for full details of collection content.

It contains one fishing diary, dated 1905-1906.

Diary has mention of incident where Christopher Shears was lost overboard from the ketch Endor (under Captain Roderique) between Dusky Sound and Chalky Inlet on the 31st March 1906 during a fishing trip to the West Coast.

Includes catch numbers and prices.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1905-1906

KING, Colin Maxwell interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 52
Identifier: H0558
Overview As a young teenager, Colin left school to pursue his ambition to become a farmer. Starting out at Lynwood Station as a farmhand, he eventually worked on various large properties throughout the southern South Island; mustering, shearing, ploughing and learning first hand what farm work involved. By his mid-twenties, he was married with a young family and on his own small farm back home in Greenhills. The family moved to Castlerock and eventually to the Lillbum Valley where for more than...
Dates: 2005 - 2006

Konini School

 Record Group
Identifier: A0263
Dates: Majority of material found within 1959 - 1987