Abstract ALISTAIR 'ACK' SOPERInterviewer: Jenny CampbellAbstracter: Jean Hawkes Session 1: 14 July 2007TRACK 1 00.08 Lifetime in ATHOL00.18 Mother said hardest birth. Describes INVERCARGILL00.54 Siblings: Ack born 1936, Neville, Adelle Winston born 194701.19 Childhood: born just after 'slump' War years still at school01.43 Southland Show main outings02.08 Father involved with rugby –...

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.

Abstract Allen TempletonInterviewer: Lynne GroveAbstracter: Lindsay KingFirst Interview: 11 April 2007DISC 1: TRACK 100.28 Self talks about POETRY - Self’s Father recited poems - self able to remember them - recited poems - took poetry books hunting - self started writing poetry - describes.03.17 HUNTING trips - lived at CLIFDEN ROAD, TUATAPERE - shot first deer at 11 years old - ate wild meat at home - time of the DEPRESSION -...

Abstract John Davidson LowInterviewer: Nancy BurnettAbstractor: Marion HawkesInterview: 23 April 2009TRACK 100:00 Interview Identification00:43 JOHN DAVIDSON LOW born in 194300:54 Interview Agreement 01:35 Living in BAYSWATER 5 Kilometres east of OTAUTAU on banks of APARIMA RIVER02:05 SELF Living on same farm as Grandfather who took up land in 1897 – third generation on farm...

Overview In this interview Ailsa talks about growing up in Makarewa and then Wyndham. She describes what she remembers of Wyndham growing up and her schooling and past times. Ailsa talks about the impact of WW2. She then talks of moving to Invercargill and meeting her husband through church and her parents in later life.