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Box 31

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Contains 28 Results:

Abstract of Gordon John (Jack) CRIGHTON, 2023

 Item — Box: 31
Identifier: H02300002
Abstract H0230 GORDON JOHN (JACK) CRIGHTONInterviewer: Seona CraigAbstracter: Judith ChristieInterview: 17 July 2015Please note that the volume of the recordings is low and sometimes difficult to hear.TRACK ONE00.00 Self started straight from school as a telephone operator at WAIMAHAKA POST OFFICE, cycling from home. Did switchboard operating and counter work, then transferred to LINES in 1950. Three years in the AIR FORCE as a...
Dates: 2023

Abstract of Elizabeth Carolyn (Liz) MILLER, 2015

 Item — Box: 31
Identifier: H02310002
Abstract ELIZABETH CAROLYN (LIZ) MILLERInterviewed by Gil PoplurDISC 1Track 11.40 A family with a background of reading3.36 Places family lived. 4.50 Involvement in church 8.40 Working for her brother9.54 A reading household10.29 Nearly self-sufficient family. 14.04 Liz sent on important errandsTrack 20.00 Continued story of errand to H&J Smiths...
Dates: 2015

MILLER, Elizabeth Carolyn (Liz) interviewed by Gill Poplur

 Record Group — Box: 31
Identifier: H0231
Overview In this interview Liz discusses and tells the story of her family covering topics such as: family interest in reading, recreational activities, wartime restrictions and memories, her education kindergarten through to Dunedin Teachers College and a Chinese built cave her parents lived in during the depression.
Dates: 2015

MCLEOD, Reginald George Alexander interviewed by Gill Poplur

 Record Group — Box: 31
Identifier: H0224
Overview In this interview Reginald starts his story in the 1940s around Gore/Mataura looking at general living, farming practices and culture of the times. He talks of his interest in rugby and support of Pirates Rugby Club. Reginald also gives a detailed account of his working career as an electrician, becoming an electrical inspector and supporting the police 1988-1996.
Dates: 2014

STIRLING, John Alexander (Jack) interviewed by Jane Craske

 Record Group — Box: 31
Identifier: H0229
Overview This interview looks at Jack’s family history around Wyndham-Waimahaka-Fortrose. The family farm was called ‘Alameda’. Jack details and describes his early memories of his education, the polio epidemic and its affects, jobs he did on the farm and farming types and practices e.g. sheep sharing, transporting of stock. He looks at the changes to farming and the district after WW2 and social life of the time e.g. football, dances, floundering, whitebaiting, eeling and car types.
Dates: 2015

LAMB, Agnes Jean interviewed by Jane Craske

 Record Group — Box: 31
Identifier: H0225
Overview Agnes recalls family history, moving to Balclutha, education and employment there. She became a nurse working at Balclutha hospital where she met her husband who was a farmer. She gave up nursing to work on the farm and talks of their home, birth of their children, farm work, the children’s education and employment.
Dates: 2014