Overview Gloria has lived in Manapouri for nearly sixty years. One of only a handful of residents, she left Dunedin to join her husband, George Lindsay, who worked for several years as guide and launchmaster for Les Murrell's small tourism operation on Lake Manapouñ and Doubtful Sound. It was eventually taken over by Les Hutchins and became the starting point for the successful company, Fiordland Travel Ltd. In her interview Gloria tells of her early life in Dunedin and what it was like moving to...

Abstract Person recorded: Robert John (Bob) Yates Date of Interview: 4 March 2004Interviewer and abstractor: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 393Tape 1 Side A starts 003: Born 1928 in CHRISTCHURCH as one of eight children. Says it was during the DEPRESSION. Despite this his FATHER managed to keep working, as a leather machinist. Following the interview, he explained his ancestors originated from...

Abstract Person recorded: Gloria Margaret Lindsay date of recording: 8 March 2004Interviewer and abstractor: Morag ForresterTape Counter: TCM 393Tape 1 Side A starts007: Born 1922 in CROMWELL but doesn’t remember much about being there because her family moved from ALEXANDRA to DUNEDIN.023: Says their home was in JUBILEE PARK, DUNEDIN, halfway up the hill from the town centre.032: Mentions being one of...

Overview In this interview David talks about his early life at The Plains Station at The Key and boarding at Waihi School and Christ's College. He then went on to work on the station. He describes the change in farm use from growing fescue to focussing on sheep and cattle. The Plains Station went on to be divided in 1969 into three runs for David and his two older brothers to farm. The section David took was called Davaar, which he continued to run until 2002, when he and his wife moved to a property at...

Abstract Person recorded: Angus David Macdonald Date: 19 May 2004Interviewer and abstracter: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A002: Born in 1937 and his full name as ANGUS DAVID MACDONALD. (This was also a sound check).007: Says he was born in INVERCARGILL and grew up at THE PLAINS (STATION) near THE KEY where his PARENTS lived. Adds that he spent all his life there apart from eight...

Overview In this interview Bob describes growing up in Christchurch and Kaikoura. After a brief stint in the NZRAF Bob went into farming and in 1960 he and his young family moved to Te Anau where he took on a role as a farm manager for Lands and Survey. In his first position he ran the Kakapo Block. After a stint in Canterbury, Bob and his family returned to Te Anau, this time as a field officer on the Takatimu Block. Bob talks about the development of farming in the Te Anau Basin, the ballot system and...

Overview George's introduction to Te Anau coincided with his involvement in the development of the Te Anau glow worm caves in 1948. The town was still village-sized when he and his wife Alma decided a year later to set up a small grocery shop amid the handful of cribs that existed between the manuka scrub on the lakefront. George has been a founding member of a few organisations in the town and instrumental in forming the Te Anau Volunteer Fire Brigade which in 2004 celebrated its 50th anniversary. In...