Oral history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 992 Collections and/or Records:
DAWSON, James Tasman (Jimmy) interviewed by Warrick McCallum
Record Group — Box 12
Identifier: H0282
Overview
In this interview Jimmy talks of his family history and areas around Southland that he has lived. He talks of his education and employment and details his life, training and work in the AirForce during WW2. He was posted to Canada during this time. After the war he talks of his marriage and career as a builder in Queenstown. His interests include: running, fishing, and beach combing.
Dates:
2000
DE CLIFFORD, Catherine Mary (Kitty) interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group — Box 13
Identifier: H0289
Overview
Kitty discusses and describes her family history, growing up in Riverton, her family’s bakery business, and the social/recreational activities available. She also covers life during WW2, employment, sporting interests, marriage and the Riverton regatta.
Dates:
2001
DE LA MERE, William Lewis (Bill) interviewed by Janice Burton
Record Group — Box 61
Identifier: H0469
Overview
In this, the first interview undertaken by the Southland Oral History Group, Bill gives details of his family, but then focuses on Holy Trinity Church, which is the Anglican parish in North Invercargill, and was established in 1930. Bill discusses the building, the church hall, fundraising, confirmation, communion and church celebrations.
Dates:
1997
DEAKER, Cyril Richard (Dick) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 53
Identifier: H0567
Overview
It was 1960 when Dick Deaker first set foot in Fiordland as a schoolboy introduced to deerhunting expeditions. Three years later, he was back on a more permanent basis having started work as a deer culler in the nearby Takitimu Mountains and the Murchison Mountains/Takahe area. It wasn't long after gaining a private pilot's licence in 1968 that he combined his two great interests — hunting and aviation. By bringing out the deer he shot in his fixed wing Piper Cub, he could sell for a relatively...
Dates:
2007
DENNY, Philip John (Phil) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 52
Identifier: H0557
Overview
Farm development was a major government policy in the 1950s and 1960s and the Te Anau Basin underwent the largest South Island scheme across four decades. Although a new kid on the Long Valley Block in 1968, Phil had previously gained stock management experience on a stud farm in Mid-Canterbury. Before that, he had worked on farms across Southland and in Canterbury as a shearer as well as a general hand. In this profile, Phil talks about some of that work experience and focuses on the...
Dates:
2005 - 2006
DEVON, Lavinia Te Rua Huihui interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box 33
Identifier: H0270
Overview
This interview is part of the Grand Hotel Project. Lavinia worked at the Grand Hotel from 1959 to 1962. She became the second cook under Mrs Dickson.
Dates:
2016
DICKIE, Ronald Stevenson interviewed by Richard Savory
Record Group — Box 39
Identifier: H0378
Dates:
2018
DICKSON, Andrew James interviewed by Wendy Williamson
Record Group — Box 45
Identifier: H0479
Dates:
2009
DICKSON, Ivy May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box 38
Identifier: H0376
Overview
Ivy talks about her family and childhood. She recalls looking after the family cows as a child. She worked at the Underwood Sugar of Milk factory after leaving school. After a housefire at their property in Makarewa, Ivy and her husband William John and their four children moved to Edendale. She recalls the biggest change in her life was the instillation of electricity.
Dates:
1991
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