Macfie, Cathy
Person
Interviewer with the Southland Oral History Project
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
FERGUSON, Wendy Patricia Evelyn by Cathy Macfie
Record Group — Box: 41
Identifier: H0419
Overview
This interview covers Wendy's family's history in Otatara and her upbringing on a farm. Wendy talks about her husband and his accidental death in a car crash. She also talks about the Otatara community throughout her life.
Dates:
2020
McFARLANE, Nola Patricia interview by Cathy Macfie
Record Group — Box: 42
Identifier: H0428
Overview
In this interview Nola shares childhood memories of family, education, sports, the depression, employment, games and interests e.g., playing the bagpipes. She details meeting her husband, planning their wedding and mountaineering honeymoon. They built their first house in Joseph Street, before shifting to Otatara and building there on a life style block. Nola also shares a story of husband, Jim, joining the Nepal Expedition with Sir Edmund Hillary and an accident Jim had there and his...
Dates:
2020
ROBBIE, Elizabeth Ann interviewed by Cathy Macfie
Record Group — Box: 61
Identifier: H0591
Overview
Ann talks family history, employment, interest and involvement in bag pipes and the Pipe Band, and incidents in her life that helped to form her beliefs and her commitment to being an advocate for vulnerable people. She became the first female Qualified Horticulturalist Arborist in NZ. She details her varied employment record and employers, marriage and family. Ann tells of the crippling interest rates in the 1980s and impacts on their farming. She goes on to tell of the hardships faced when...
Dates:
2022