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EXCELL, Walter interviewed by David van Tongeren

 Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0451
Overview In this interview Walter discusses family, education, employment, teaching career and leisure pursuits e.g. fishing and hunting that bolstered food supplies. He talks about being a conscientious objector and the consequences of this on his life. He goes on to share some history of mines in Western Southland and some local stories e.g. the first and only train robbery in Southland.
Dates: 1994

PETRIE, Charlotte Anne interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

 Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0476
Overview Charlotte begins by recalling her mother’s 100th birthday and her sister Gladys’s singing achievements and work in Australia. She goes onto share stories of her father, Isaac, career as a sea captain which took him around the South Pole in sailing and steam ship; and sailing a clipper between England and China at the turn of the 20th century. After which she shares her own achievements as an artist and attending the Slade School of Art in London and exhibitions she had. This is a story of a...
Dates: 1993

WILDERMOTH, Violet May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

 Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0474
Overview In this interview Violet recalls family history, education, her apprenticeship as a Tailoress and Invercargill history e.g., the building of the Stead Street Bridge in 1922, steam boats on the Estuary, her father becoming Mayor of South Invercargill Borough and her marriage.
Dates: 1991

TUCKEY, James William Luke interviewed by Kay Ward

 Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0478
Overview In this interview James covers a range of topics including: his family, residences/addresses, employment, interests and memories of the Invercargill CBD in earlier days. Some of the businesses he recalls included: Reins, Broad Smalls, the Brown Owl, McKenzie’s, Woolworths and various hotels e.g., Deshler’s and the Cecil. James worked for H&J Smiths for 35 years as the credit manager.
Dates: 1998

WILSON, Winifred May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

 Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0500
Overview In this interview, May talks about how she first got involved with Highland Dancing at the age of 10 through dancing with the Mataura Kilties Pipe Band. She was taught by Stella Glennie. May moved to Dunedin to be taught by William Kilgour. She took part in a dance tour of Central Otago. In the early 1920s, when men dominated the Highland dancing world, May won the first combined men’s and women’s over-18 championship. In 1924 she travelled to Scotland where she won both the Highland fling and...
Dates: 1994

DOUGLAS, Letitia Joan (Lettie) interviewed by Alva Faul

 Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0483
Overview Letitia Douglas was born in Invercargill in 1916 and lived there all her life. In this interview she recalls her education at Waihopai School and Southland Girls High School and her maternity, Plunket, midwifery and postgraduate nursing training. She describes joining Guides in 1929 and being in the Southland Girls High School Company and the St John's Church Guide Company. Letitia talks about camping, patrols, promise, laws, good turns and flags. She was a midwife at St Helens for five years...
Dates: 1998

GREENER, John Lionel interviewed by Judith Thomas

 Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0493
Overview In this interview John discusses his involvement with cycling, from his early days cycling as a boy in Dunedin to his recent involvement in the Masters Games. He discusses the early days of the development of Kew Bowl in 1952 and of the Tour of Southland from the first tour in 1956.
Dates: 2022

GRAY, Arthur Allan interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

 Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0306
Overview In this short interview, Leading Aircraftman Arthur Gray (nunmber 4213457), talks about his time at the Farewell Spit radar Station during World War II. He was stationed there from 1943 to 1944 and also spent time at other radar stations in the north island.
Dates: 2007