Overview This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. Adrian starts his interview describing his apprenticeship as an electrician before joining the Post office where he worked setting up and maintaining exchanges e.g., in Christchurch, Milford Sound and Stewart Island. He details the Stewart Island exchange.

Abstract ADRIAN REX LIDDELLInterviewer: Gordon DustonAbstracter: Judith ChristieInterview: 10 April 2017TRACK One00:00 Interview identification01.30 Born In Invercargill in 1928 at ST HELENS MATERNITY HOME in Nelson Street. Family lived in Fox Street, shifting to Beatrice Street after self left home and married.02.30 Undertook a five year ELECTRICAL APPRENTICESHIP with private firm called NORMAN MELVIN (?), opposite the...

Overview In this interview Harold talks of family education and employment. He goes on to give a detailed account of mutton birding – the life cycle of the birds, their habitat, the process of retrieving them, the preparation of the birds for storage and eating, landing on the rocks to start with and now being helicoptered in. He tells of the accommodation on the Islands and how they have been modernised and the ownership of the Islands. He also discusses the early history and interactions of Māori and...