Oral history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 971 Collections and/or Records:
LOVETT, Bailey Ann interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box 6
Identifier: H0055
Overview
This interview was recorded as part of the About Us Voices of Southland collection. In this interview Bailey gives a description of Bluff life and activities e.g. Oyster Festival. She discusses her family’s connection with fishing, her early education and studying to become a Marine Biologist and what this entailed. Bailey describes experiences such as studying shell fish, shark tagging and research on whales, dolphins, sharks and seals.
Dates:
2011
LOW, John Davidson interviewed by Nancy Burnett
Record Group — Box 11
Identifier: H0134
Overview
This interview is a topic based interview about the 1984 flood and was recorded following the 25th anniversary of the flood. In this interview John looks at the 1978 Otautau Floods and how these affected him and his family who were farming at Bayswater on the banks of the Aparima River. He recalls what he had to do keep family, stock and feed safe. Compares this flood with the 1984 and 1987 floods and looks back on floods in 1913 and 1916 and how mechanisms were put in place after these to try...
Dates:
2009
LOWREY, Janice Claire interviewed by Nancy Burnett
Record Group — Box 11
Identifier: H0135
Overview
Janice describes her experiences, feelings and evacuation in Otautau during the 1984 flood and the aftermath of this event to family, home, business and community.
Dates:
2009
LUTTRELL, Jack De Wilton interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0552
Overview
One of the New Zealand team members seconded to Colonel Howard for the 1949 expedition was former government deer culler, Jack Luttrell. He had worked a couple of years earlier for the Wildlife Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs culling red deer in the Haast district of the West Coast. He also took part in a reconnaissance survey of Fiordland in 1948 in preparation for the Howard expedition. Now in his 70s, Mr Luttrell, has a clear memory of those earlier years hunting in much of what...
Dates:
2005
Mabel Christina Wachner as a Young Woman
Digital Image
Identifier: DH00820004
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Mabel Christina Wachner at the Time of Her Interview
Digital Image
Identifier: DH00820003
Dates:
1990
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
MACDONALD, Angus David interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 49
Identifier: H0540
Overview
In this interview David talks about his early life at The Plains Station at The Key and boarding at Waihi School and Christ's College. He then went on to work on the station. He describes the change in farm use from growing fescue to focussing on sheep and cattle. The Plains Station went on to be divided in 1969 into three runs for David and his two older brothers to farm. The section David took was called Davaar, which he continued to run until 2002, when he and his wife moved to a property at...
Dates:
2004
MACDONALD, Angus David interviewed by Phil Hoskin
Record Group — Box 46
Identifier: H0463
Dates:
2021
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