Abstract H0287Louis Norman Nuttall Interviewer: Janice TempletonDate: 26th September, 1999Abstractor: Ngaire BartleyTrack 100:00 Interview identification LOUIS NORMAN NUTTALL Born 27 January 1929. Living at 9 Bates Street, Riverton00:40 MOTHER born COLAC BAY. Her FATHER and GRANDFATHER lived there. GRANDFATHER went to school at COLAC BAY. First language was MAORI. One of two stations where MAORI was taught....

Overview Rowland talks of background history of life in Riverton in the early 1920s and attending ‘Tech’ in Invercargill for 3 years. He lists the fishing fleet, recalls the Riverton Regattas, as well as the businesses in Riverton. On leaving school he went into the family business. He tells of the personalities who worked at the sawmill - local people who had lifelong employment there. He covers the working conditions and the steam engines built by Johnson’s Steam Engines in Invercargill. Rowland also...

Abstract H0288ROWLAND MORE20 October 1999Interviewer: Lou NuttallAbstractor: Ngaire Bartley00.0 Interviewer’s preamble and introduction.00.45 Born 15 February 1916. Currently lives SOLENT STREET, RIVERTON. Travelled around the world but glad to come home to Riverton. Mentions overseas experience. SON living in BIRKENHEAD, near LIVERPOOL 02.38 1920 went to school ‘a bit of an outlaw’. Walked over the old bridge on top of the...