Overview This interview was recorded as part of a project to celebrate of 125 years of Women's Suffrage in New Zealand. In this interview Shani shares her interests and passions as a child growing up in Invercargill and how her interest in art lead to her vocation as a Florist. She shares her journey starting with an after school job at Tudor House Florist, to going to Wellington where she took exams and took part in competition work. She returned to Invercargill where she eventually purchased her own...

Overview Brought up on a farm in Canterbury in the 1950s and 60s, Judy was well-versed in the changing seasons of a rural lifestyle. So it was with some equanimity that not long after she married her farmer husband she was ready to leave the rolling midCanterbury plains for the more rigorous climate and terrain of Northern Southland followed by the remote, uncultivated soils of the Te Anau Basin. As new settlers of the Long Valley Block — part of the government's farm settlement scheme in the Basin — in...