Box 16
Container
Contains 10 Results:
PRITCHARD, William John (Jack) interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0150
Overview
In this interview Jack talks of his family history and grandparent’s employment with mining e.g. Nightcaps and Linton Coal Company; the family orchard in McIvor Road. Jack goes on to recall his own education, employment with the Post Office and war experiences where he was in the Army Signals in 21st battalion posted in the Middle East. In 1945 he returned to the Post Office transferring to Wellington-Lower Hutt exchange. In 1956 he and wife Thelma returned to Southland and purchased a small...
Dates:
2006
REECE, Andrena Glendinning interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0308
Dates:
1999
STEPHENS, Annie and Kenneth Earle interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0305
Dates:
1999
WATSON, Joan Louisa interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0171
Overview
In this interview Joan explains how she and her husband Rex knew Dr. Geoffrey Orbell and their discovery of Takahē in Fiordland. She also talks of their subsequent expeditions’ with Dr. Fowler and Jack Sorenson to study the birds; And the publishing of articles about the discovery in papers and magazines throughout the world e.g. National Geographic and Time Magazine.
Dates:
2007
DONNELLY, Stanley Butler (Stan) interviewed by Warwick McCallum and Lloyd Blakie
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0309
HART, Eileen Sarah interviewed by Warrick McCallum
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0310
Dates:
2002
HOPGOOD, Rowland James McPhedran (Rolly) interviewed by Warrick McCallum
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0311
DALY, James Smith (Jim) interviewed by Lynne Grove
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0314
Dates:
2006
ROBERTSON, Graeme Boyd interviewed by Warrick McCallum
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0307
Dates:
2006
MATHIESON, Ruth interviewed by Carolyn Deverson
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0304
Overview
In this interview Ruth Mathieson talks about her father Vic Stevens. Vic was the 13th of 14 children and was born in 1905. He attended Wild Bush, Riverton and Oraki Schools. When he left school he went to work on the family farm in Longwood and then he was employed by Parkinsons, an electrical installation company, in Invercargill. He worked with a gang getting houses "hooked up to the electric". Vic then mobved to the West Coast and played rugby for the Star Rugby Club and he met and married...
Dates:
2006