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Bluff (N.Z.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 140 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

Infants Bluff School

 Digital Image
Identifier: D28810001
Dates: c.1927

Infants Bluff School, 1927

 Item — Box 1: Series S2875; Series S2876; Series S2877; Series S2878; Series S2879; Series S2880; Series S2881; Series S2882
Identifier: S28810001
Scope and Contents Infants Bluff School class photo. Verna Fraser (nee Bailey) first in second row from left and Leon Bailey first in bottom right row.
Dates: 1927

KING, Colin Maxwell interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group
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