Overview In this short interview Ruby recalls growing up near Tuatapere. She talks of home life, her father's work as an engive driver at various saw mills and the Chinese goldminers at Round Hill.

Overview In this interview Allen talks of his interest in poetry and writing his own poetry as well as detailed accounts of hunting trips taken as a child. He describes trapping possums, hunting pigs and deer and training hunting dogs. He tells of a trip to England by boat in 1963. On returning to Tuatapere he returned to possuming and worked at sawmilling. He goes onto to describe and explain the workings of the mill and machinery.