Milford Sound (N.Z.)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Alister McDonald Papers
Record Group
Identifier: A0633
Overview
Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. It contains notes on the Proposed Haast - Milford Road, The Save Manapouri Campaign and Deep Cove Water Proposal. Includes an 8mm film titled "Manapouri". Please contact Archives staff for furhter details of collection content.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1964 - 2002
BROTHERSTON, Peter Alexander interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 50
Identifier: H0544
Overview
Peter's immediate environment, as a young child, was the granite, tree-covered mountains and clear waters of the Hollyford Valley. As a youth and into early adulthood it was the tussock country of the Te Anau Basin that he frequented. He was also among the early contract staff to carry out the initial task of levelling swathes of shrub and bush so that it could become productive agricultural soil. Leaving for a few years to live further south, Peter returned and worked for the Fiordland...
Dates:
2005
CARRAN, Christopher (Chris) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 54
Identifier: H0574
Overview
Fifty years ago, while the politicians and planners made board table decisions about the future development of what was one of New Zealand's remotest regions, Chris Carran and his brothers were working on those changes from the ground up. As agricultural contractors, in the mid-1950s they were hired to clear the land and plough paddocks that would permanently alter the topography of former run country in the Te Anau Basin. From those inauspicious beginnings as a teenager, Chris returned to Te...
Dates:
2009
Collected Historical Maps, 1793 - 1986, 1793, bulk: c.1824 - 1986
Series
Identifier: S0010
Dates:
1793 - 1986; 1793; Majority of material found within c.1824 - 1986
COTTER, Paul John and MUNRO, Barry Russell interviewed by Seona Craig
Record Group — Box 31
Identifier: H0232
Overview
This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Paul and Barry recall and describe their experiences working for NZ Post Office as Radio Operators based at Awarua Radio, with some time each spent on the Chatham Islands and at Milford Sound. They also recall some of the emergency situations they were involved in e.g., distress calls from fisherman, steamships in distress and a call from a Frenchman sailing solo around the world. They describe the...
Dates:
2015
F.G. [Frederick George] Hall-Jones Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0001
Overview
This collection contains material from noted Southland historian and author Frederick (Fred) George Hall-Jones. It includes a large number of maps (originals and copies), many with hand-written notations.
Also included are his research notes on Southland history, newspaper clippings, as well as various historical pamphlets and publications.
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1793 - 1986
George, Bligh and Milford Sounds [copy], 1851
Component — Map-box 1: Series S0010
Identifier: S00100001_j
Scope and Contents
New Zealand Middle Island, Province of Otago. George, Bligh and Milford Sounds. Surveyed by Captain J.L. Stokes, Commander G.H. Richards, F.J. Evans, Master, R. Bradshaw, Mate, J.W. Simth (Smith?), 2nd Master, F.W. Oke and D. Pender, Masters Assistants R.N. H.M.S. Acheron 1851.
Dates:
1851
George, Bligh and Milford Sounds [copy]
Digital Image
Identifier: D00100001_j
Dates:
1851
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
KILLEEN, James Columbian interviewed by Madeline McGilvray
Record Group — Box 62
Identifier: H0446
Overview
In this interview James gives details of his parents' backgrounds, the village in Galway, Ireland where he was born in 1906 and why he came to New Zealand. James describes leaving Galway in 1929 and his impressions of Invercargill on arriving in 1930. He describes working at the Fortification sawmill before labouring on buildings in Invercargill. He describes working on the Te Anau to Milford highway in very difficult working and living conditions. He notes that three hundred men worked on the...
Dates:
1999
Maps of Southland, Otago, and New Zealand, 1840 - 1955, bulk: 1840 - 1856, 1917, 1955
Item — Map-box 1: Series S0010
Identifier: S00100001
Scope and Contents
Ten maps (copies and originals) of early Southland and surrounds.
Dates:
1840 - 1955; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1856; 1917; 1955
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