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Oral history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 999 Collections and/or Records:

COWIE, Andrew Findlay interviewed by June Trotter

 Record Group
Identifier: H0036
Overview This interview covers family history, property, family gatherings and growing up in a large extended family on the farm. Findlay talks of his education through to secondary school and his return to employment on the farm. He talks of the crops/seeds and early farming machinery and technologies. During the war Findlay was an Air Force mechanic and after the war he talks of marriage and returning to farming life.
Dates: 2006

COX, Andrew (Andy) interviewed by Chrissy Wickes

 Record Group — Box 22
Identifier: H0394
Overview This interview looks at Any Cox's involvement in the early days of kakapo recovery programme in Stewart Island and Fiordland and elsewhere.
Dates: 2019

COYLE, David John interviewed by Joy Lietze

 Record Group
Identifier: H0189
Overview In this extensive interview David recalls his family history and life; World War 2, education and in employment. He goes in to detail about his employment in the timber industry in Tapanui covering aspects from the sawmills through to the selling of the timber off shore.
Dates: 2013

Crawler Holding Ford Tractor on Hill

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH04360008
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1950-1970

CRIGHTON, Gordon John (Jack) interviewed by Seona Craig

 Record Group
Identifier: H0230
Overview This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Jack recalls and describes his employment. First as a telephone operator at Waimahaka Post Office before transferring to the Lines Department in 1950 During the war he spent 3 years in the Air Force ass a radio operator. As an employee of the Lines department Jack worked in various areas of Southland becoming a foreman after 6 years. He enjoyed his work and details what it in entailed e.g., putting up...
Dates: 2015

CRISP, Lois Fay interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group
Identifier: H0174
Overview This interview was undertaken as part of the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of Eastside Baptist Church in 2012. In this interview Lois recalls, describes and explains her life’s experiences of growing up in Richmond Invercargill. She covers her childhood, employment, marriage to husband Noel, their family and their involvement in the Baptist Church.
Dates: 2012

CROMPTON, Mark Bryan interviewed by Chrissy Wickes

 Record Group
Identifier: H0256
Overview In this interview Mark talks of his interest weather and expeditions he has undertaken as a result of this interest. He worked at the Campbell Island Weather Station and describes in detail the layout of the base e.g., housing, streets, supplies, life, people and interactions on the base. When he returned to New Zealand, he was employed by Noxious Weeds Authority as well as running a small deer farm on Banks Peninsula. He enjoyed the isolation of the Island and returned to Campbell Islands as...
Dates: 2016