Rabbits -- Control
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
MACKENZIE, Malcolm David interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box 1
Identifier: H0108
Overview
In this interview, Malcolm talks about his family background and farm life on Heatherlea Farm (East Limehills, Southland), as well as physical details of the farm. He describes roles of family members in farm and household work; rabbit control activities during childhood; owners of neighboring farms; changes in farming practices and in the farming community; attendance at Limehills School and Browns School; father’s illness and early death; background on Otapiri Hall and Otapiri Dance Club;...
Dates:
2013
PALMER, Margaret Robina interviewed by Tessa Smith
Record Group — Box 39
Identifier: H0454
Overview
This interview covers Robina's early life in Glenham where she was born and raised on a small dairy farm. Robina recounts memories of farming life, her move to Roxburgh when she was eighteen, and her time living in Invercargill as a married woman. Robina details her family's history, living through WWII and her memories of D-Day, and other memories of her childhood.
Dates:
2021
Phillip Shirley and Les McDowell - Southern District
Digital Image
Identifier: DH02960003
Dates:
No Date
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Phillip Shirley and Les McDowell - Southern District , No Date
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H02960003
Dates:
No Date
REID, Roy Watson interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box 39
Identifier: H0107
Overview
In this interview Roy tells of his family history dating back to 1888, his home, education, childhood activities on the farm e.g., rabbiting, catching eels. He details farming sheep and fescue. He looks at the history of and changes to Mossburn, social activities and how his parents met.
Dates:
2013
SAUNDERS, John Armstrong and Frances Gloria interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group — Box 11
Identifier: H0153
Overview
In this interview John and Francis share a comprehensive and detailed look into their lives from childhood and family history; through to meeting, their marriage, family and their family’s education and achievements; the purchase of their farm and farming life. Among their operations on the farm was their decision to go into growing grain which they cover with some detail. They also tell of their lives during the war years, their involvement in community organisation’s, their interests,...
Dates:
2008
SPEIGHT, William Allan (Bill) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 47
Identifier: H0523
Overview
In this interview, Bill talks about his life on Redcliff Station, a vast sheep and cattle station bordering the Waiau River and Fiordland National Park on the west, and the Takitimu Mountains to the east. Bill discusses his early schooling by correspondence, then boarding at schools in Canterbury before going to university at Otago. Bill talks about growing fescue as an extra to sheep and cattle farming on the station and issues with rabbits. He goes on to talk about developments in the area,...
Dates:
2004
Ted Braven in his teens with rabbits caught, [no date]
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00950006
Dates:
[no date]
TURNER, Ann Clark interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box 44
Identifier: H0371
Overview
This interview was commissioned by Women's Division of Federated Farmers for a project entitled Pioneer Women. In this interview, Ann talks about how her family came to New Zealand from England on the Scimitar. She talks about early life in Lowburn, in Central Otago. Ann went to school in Invercargill and then she worked at Mt Pisa Station. She talks about rabbitting, farm life and her large family.
Dates:
1990
WILLIAMS, Albert Ivan (Snow) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 55
Identifier: H0582
Overview
Born the youngest of four sons, Snow's early teens were shadowed by events in Europe. His older brothers on active service during WWII, he left school at the age of fourteen to help out on the family farm in North Otago. Post-war, he continued working as a farmhand on various properties throughout North Otago. A spell of employment with an Oamaru-based limeworks company led to his introduction to Te Anau where lime was extracted from a local site for use on the goverrnment's farm development...
Dates:
2008
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