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Macfie, Cathy

 Person

Interviewer with the Southland Oral History Project

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

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