Abstract Interviewee: Valerie Joan (Val) Robbie Date: 31 October 2005Interviewer and abstracter: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A006: States she is VALERIE JOAN (ROBBIE née CUTHILL) and that she was born 1 MARCH 1924 at home in INVERCARGILL. 007: Replies that there were three CHILDREN in her family: one SISTER, NORMA, and one BROTHER, BOB (ROBERT).021: Her FATHER was JOHN...

Abstract Interviewee: Thomas Andrew (Tom) Roberts Date: 27 October 2005Interviewer and Abstractor: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A004: States his full name is THOMAS ANDREW ROBERTS and that he was born in INVERCARGILL on 24/AUGUST/1932.009: His FATHER, he says, was named JAMES EDWARD ROBERTS, born in BLUFF in 1901 and five years later living in TE ANAU with his PARENTS (TOM’S GRANDPARENTS). Adds...

Abstract Interviewee: John Robert (Jack) Murrell Interview date: 23 August 2004Interviewer and abstractor: Morag ForresterPreamble by Jack Murrell: What is now “Murrell’s Grand View House”, a Bed and Breakfast Lodge, has undergone several styles of description, partly due to changes in language, partly to actual changes in what was offered to the public. Of necessity, it had to provide full accommodation and began life as “Accommodation House” which was used...

Abstract Interviewee: John Robert (Jack) MURRELLInterview date: 05 OCTOBER 2004 Interviewer and Abstractor: Morag ForresterA third interview took place again in the lounge at GRAND VIEW.Tape 4 Side A starts003: Opens saying that OLD BOB had been appointed as the first CHIEF GUIDE on the MILFORD TRACK after the government took over control of it from the ROSS BROTHERS (JACK and DONALD) [However, DONALD ROSS had been appointed GOVERNMENT GUIDE...

Abstract Interviewee: John Robert (Jack) Murrell Interview date: 26 OCTOBER 2004 Interviewer and abstractor: Morag ForresterA fourth interview took place at the same venue116: Responding to off-tape question about where his parents lived after they married, says his FATHER built a two-room log hut with vertical half trees which were split length-wise and nailed round the frame while the space between the logs was corked with sphagnum moss. The...

Abstract Interviewee: John Robert (Jack) MURRELLInterview date: 2 November 2004Interviewer and Abstractor: Morage ForresterRecorded at Jack's home in ManapouriTape 8 Side A starts001: Continues discussing his jobs around NEW ZEALAND, saying his next move was towards WELLINGTON. 022: There, he says, he wanted to find a way to work his passage to ENGLAND (in the 1950s the mode of transport was by passenger ship). Recalls getting a...

Abstract Interviewee: Jack De Wilton LUTTRELLDate of Interview: 10 February 2005Interviewer and Abstractor: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 393Side A starts 022: Says he hunted in his local district of the WAIRARAPA from about the age of 15 and it was only a few years later that BAS(IL) BLATCHFORD offered him a job SKIN-HUNTING in the HAAST. 035: “I was given the LANDSBOROUGH block to SKIN-HUNT”. Adds that it was his first...

Abstract Interviewee: Olive Doreen Hutchins Date: 8 February 2005Interviewer and abstracter: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 393Tape 1 Side A007: Gives her full name as OLIVE DOREEN SIMPSON and that she was born on 7/JUNE/1925 in hospital in INVERCARGILL.013: States her FATHER was CHARLES HERBERT SIMPSON and her MOTHER was CLEMENTINA ELIZABETH neé FERGUSON.019: Replies that her FATHER worked for...

Abstract Interviewee: Jack McKenzie Interview Date: 3 February 2005Interviewerand Abstracter: M. ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A005: States he was born JOHN HARVEY MCKENZIE on 11/NOVEMBER/1922 in TAPANUI HOSPITAL, which is now an unused building in the town of the same name situated about 20ks east of GREENVALE/LEITHEN DOWNS.021: Replies that his GRANDFATHER, ANDREW MCKENZIE, first arrived in...