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
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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
CRIMP, Rema Doreen (Tersh) interviewed by Judith Thomas
Record Group — Box 41
Identifier: H0417
Dates:
2020
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
CRONIN, William Francis (Bill) interviewed by Valmai Redhead
Record Group — Box 58
Identifier: H0456
Dates:
2010