Overview This interview of a Waipango/Riverton native covers her family, her home at Birch Bush farm in Waipango, Southland, her grandmother’s home in Riverton, domestic life, her schools, her family’s farm and its workers. Also covers her early employment, start in nursing, illness with tuberculosis, and experience as both a patient and nurse at Orangapai Sanatorium in Waipiata; her marriage to Charles Lake; and their life as a hired farming couple on several different farms in the Southland and...

Overview Annie tells her family history and meeting her husband and their marriage of over 50 years. When they were first married, they lived in a cottage at Trails Mill near Riverton. She gives a brief history of this time and of the area. Within her family she had an Uncle John Holland who invented the Holland submarine, which was the first submarine in the British navy. Annie talks about her children and their education and employment. She gives further details of Moore’s Mill owners, managers and...