Abstract H0356 ELIZABETH MAREE JENKINSInterviewer: Gordon DustonAbstracter: Judith ChristieInterview: 12 July 2018 TRACK ONE00:00 Interview identification00.50 Born in 1954. 02.00 Born in TUATAPERE, moved to PUKERAU at age 2 and attended PUKERAU SCHOOL and GORE HIGH SCHOOL. Worked in SOCIAL WELFARE in Invercargill on leaving school for three months in 1970, then applied for a job at the POST OFFICE. Opening at AWARUA...

Overview This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Elizabeth details her training and work at Awarua Radio where she was the second female to work. Once she was trained, she was a Radio Technician. Her work took her to various places including: Dog Island, Centre Island and Puysegar Lighthouse. She talks about the lighthouse family on Puysegar i.e., how the children were educated and how the family got their weekly supplies. Elizabeth highlights...

Abstract Malcolm Graham (Mac) HOWDENInterviewer: Richard SavoryDates: 7 and 16 August 2018Abstracter: April MilliganTrack 100.00 Interview Identification00.39 MALCOLM GRAHAM HOWDEN (MAC) older brother EDWARD (TED) (one brother died at birth) (a sister lived approx. 3 months). MAC became youngest of a family of 4. MAC’s parents were from large families, Mum from 9 and Dad 9. His Father grew up at LADBROOKS in CANTERBURY and moved...

Abstract H0361 Violet May HOWDENInterviewer: Richard SavoryDate: 16 August 2018Abstracter: April MilliganTrack 100.41 Interview with VIOLET MAY HOWDEN, nee BEATTIE born 30 in 1929. VIOLET recalls living close to her parents the BEATTIE Family and her Grandparents the SOMERVILLE family especially her Grandmother (on her Mother’s side). The SOMERVILLE’s were early Settlers to OTAGO. Her Great Great Grandparents with 9 of a family came to NEW...

Overview In this interview, Mac talks of his family history, education, the family dairy farm, sports, WW2 and family member’s involvement. He goes on to talk about his marriage to Violet, social activities, religion, the purchase of a new Morris Minor in 1958, his switch from dairy farming to sheep farming and his involvement in the Wyndam pipe Band as a drummer. He tells of the formation of the Southland Rural Economic Society in 1958 which eventually joined with other societies to for CRT (Combined...

Overview In this interview Dorothy recalls her father working on the Railways, living a Waihoaka and shifting to a farm at Pahia, her education at Pahia School, working at home to help with the milking and to look after her mother and then working in the local store. Their farm was self sufficient with cows, sheep hens and a large vegetable garden. Dorothy goes on to tell of her siblings and their occupations, school life, social life and sporting interests. She tells of her marriage to Don and their...