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Oral history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 971 Collections and/or Records:

CALVERT, John Jabez (Jack) interviewed by Alisa Dawson

 Record Group — Box 46
Identifier: H0484
Overview In this interview, Jack gives details of his family background and schooling. He talks about Invercargill and the Jabez Hay and Company foundry of which his father was a part owner. He describes the family farm at Kennington which had hens and dairy cows. He mentions rabbiting. Jack married Thelma Ayers in 1935 and they had six children. Jack goes on to discuss his love of breeding and showing birds and his long association with the Invercargill Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Club. He was a member...
Dates: 1998

CAMPBELL, Wilson Cameron interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 48
Identifier: H0530
Overview In this interview, Wilson recounts his early life in the Catlins and Balcultha. Wilson started his first business at the age of 16, selling fruit and produce from Central Otago to retailers in Gore. Wilson then recounts his time in the air force during WWII. At the end of the war Wilson and his wife Verna moved to Te Anau. Wilson became involved in local tourism. He describes a plan he came up with for a ski field on Mt Luxmore. He recalls how he and Lawson Burrows discovered the glow worm...
Dates: 2003 - 2004

CARDNO, Frana Grace interviewed by Cathy Macfie

 Record Group — Box 15
Identifier: H0223
Overview Frana had a full and interesting life which she shares in this detailed interview. Frana talks of her family, career as a Kindergarten teacher, marriage, children, life in Te Anau, and her creation of a private Kindergarten. She looks at her passion for Fiordland and being part of the campaign to save Lake Manapouri and Te Anau from Hyrdro power development. She saw a need for a Public Library in Te Anau and lead to her being elected to the Wallace County Community Board, which lead to her...
Dates: 2014

Carl James Fowler, 2008

 Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00700003
Overview Photograph taken at the time of interview.
Dates: 2008

Carl James Fowler

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH00700003
Dates: 2008

CARMICHAEL, Joyce Alberta interviewed by Marianne Widmer

 Record Group — Box 3
Identifier: H0035
Overview This interview covers Joyce’s early life and family history farming at Dipton, her education and employment history. Gives an overview of the war years after which she married and shifted to Gummies Bush. She talks of this time, her husband, children and extended family. Joyce was very involved in the community e.g. Plunket, Anglican Church Thornbury, Southland Regional Council, Rural Women NZ (WDFF) etc. In 1993 she was awarded the National Bank Women’s Suffrage Award.
Dates: 2006

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