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Bluff (N.Z.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 124 Collections and/or Records:

HOSKINS, Dorothy Anne interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group
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

LOVETT, Bailey Ann interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group
Identifier: H0055
Overview This interview was recorded as part of the About Us Voices of Southland collection. In this interview Bailey gives a description of Bluff life and activities e.g. Oyster Festival. She discusses her family’s connection with fishing, her early education and studying to become a Marine Biologist and what this entailed. Bailey describes experiences such as studying shell fish, shark tagging and research on whales, dolphins, sharks and seals.
Dates: 2011

Map of Campbelltown Hundred Southland N.Z.

 Digital Image
Identifier: D00100002_ay
Dates: Sept. 1914. Additions to March 1935.; Publication: 1935