Oral history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1005 Collections and/or Records:
HUBBER, David Winston interviewed by Gordon Duston
Record Group — Box 64
Identifier: H0638
Dates:
2024
HUGHES, Milton (Minty) interviewed by Madeline McGilvray
Record Group
Identifier: H0449
Overview
Minty Hughes was born in Otautau in 1911. In this interview Minty discusses his father and his work in the flax mill at Pukemaori and his mother's home near Monkey Island, Orepuki. He describes travelling by steamer to Port Craig in 1923 and attending school there. Minty talks about the sawmills at Port Craig, transporting the logs, the Percy Burn viaduct, loading the boats with timber, a brief history of the Craig family and how the settlement got its name. He mentions his job as whistle boy...
Dates:
1998
HUMPHRIES, Arthur Leonard interviewed by Alva Faul
Record Group
Identifier: H0444
Overview
Arthur Humphries was born in Mataura in 1922. In this interview he describes his schooling at Tuturau School, training with the RNZAF and having lived at Tuturau, Rotorua, Canada, England and Invercargill. He summarises his interests in local government, education, farming, golf, tennis, bowls, fishing, hiking, the Masonic Lodge and the Justice of the Peace Association. He mentions marrying Doreen in 1946 and having two daughters and one son. He describes his long-term involvement with the...
Dates:
1999
HUTCHINS, Olive Doreen interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group
Identifier: H0550
Overview
For about twenty years, Olive was a member of the Board of Directors of Real Journeys (formerly trading as Fiordland Travel Ltd), one of New Zealand's largest tourist operators. Her late husband, Les Hutchins, was instrumental in shaping and developing tourism in Fiordland from small beginnings in 1954 to the multi-million dollar industry it has become in 2005.
In this profile, Olive describes the changes she has witnessed from life on a farm in Myross Bush, bringing up a young family on the...
Dates:
2005
Ian Maurice Joseph Dawson
Digital Image
Identifier: DH04020003
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Ian Maurice Joseph Dawson , 2019
Item — Box 4
Identifier: H04020003
Overview
Taken at the time of the interview.
Dates:
2019
Informal Get Together of Members of the Invercargill Operatic Society at Their Rehearsal Rooms
Digital Image
Identifier: DH04340004
Dates:
c.1955
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Informal Get Together of Members of the Invercargill Operatic Society at Their Rehearsal Rooms, c.1955
Item
Identifier: H04340004
Dates:
c.1955
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