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Summers, Kathryn

 Person

Interviewer with the Southland Oral History Project

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

BUCKINGHAM, Kenneth James interviewed by Kathryn Summers

 Record Group — Box: 33
Identifier: H0251
Overview In this interview Kenneth talks of his family history and Grandparents journey to NZ in the 1860s and eventually settling in the Waikawa Valley. He talks of the importance his grandfather put on education and details the education of his father and himself and his love of playing sport. He goes on to discuss travel he has undertaken and farming methods of the time e.g., dairying, the use of horses and gelignite. He talks of living conditions and how his father had the only car in the district...
Dates: 2016