In the Wake of the Pioneers: Fiordland Museum Trust Oral History Project
     Subject 
  
    Subject Source: Local sources
    
    
     Found in 1 Collection or Record:
SPEIGHT, William Allan (Bill) interviewed by Morag Forrester
     Record Group 
  
    
      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
      
      
   