Farm life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:
FRASER, Lovat Hugh interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 53
Identifier: H0563
Overview
A retired farmer, Lovat has experienced life on very different rural properties in the Te Anau Basin. As a child he and his brothers grew up amid the tussocks and sheep of a small pastoral run, The Gorge. During his early married life, he experienced farming in eastern Southland and at Mossburn until 1970 when he was one of the successful applicants of the ballot system for the government's new farm settlements in the Te Anau Basin. During this interview Lovat gives a personal account of the...
Dates:
2006
GALLAND, George Joseph William (Joe) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 47
Identifier: H0524
Overview
In this interview Joe talks about his early life in Otago, Waikouaiti and then Dunedin. On leaving school Joe took up shearing. Joe then recounts his experiences of WWII in some detail. Joe served in the air force and was prisoner of war from 1943 to the end of the war, after his plane was shot down in Egypt. On his return Joe married and took on a lease for Elmwood Station at The Key. Initially Jo grew fescue, which was exported to the US, and made more money than sheep. Joe goes on to...
Dates:
2003 - 2004
GORDON, Patricia Dawn (Patsy) interviewed by Margaret Ann Irving
Record Group — Box 61
Identifier: H0589
Dates:
2022 - 2023
Harvesting - haystack
Digital Image
Identifier: DH02400004
Dates:
No Date
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Harvesting - using the sweep
Digital Image
Identifier: DH02400003
Dates:
No Date
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Harvesting - using the sweep, No Date
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H02400003
Dates:
No Date
HAYES, Beverley Margaret interviewed by Tessa Smith
Record Group — Box 43
Identifier: H0458
Dates:
2021
HILL, Jean Lusitania interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group — Box 9
Identifier: H0018
Overview
This interview covers Jeans family history and her memories of growing up and living in Merrivale Road, Scotts Gap, home on the farm, food, clothing, chores and education. She describes her working conditions as a cook. Jean talks of DT King moving their house up onto the hill. There is a commentary on the war years – conscientious objectors-, her marriage and family and living at Otahu Flat, her twins and their time at Karitane, and her religious life.
Dates:
2007
The Life of Jean Penman-Irwin (1925 - 2000). Narrated by Arthur Irwin
Record Group
Identifier: H0657
Dates:
2013
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