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...

Overview One of the New Zealand team members seconded to Colonel Howard for the 1949 expedition was former government deer culler, Jack Luttrell. He had worked a couple of years earlier for the Wildlife Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs culling red deer in the Haast district of the West Coast. He also took part in a reconnaissance survey of Fiordland in 1948 in preparation for the Howard expedition. Now in his 70s, Mr Luttrell, has a clear memory of those earlier years hunting in much of what...

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...

Overview Rex grew up in the 1930s on Stewart Island surrounded by the sea and people whose lives were ruled by the tides and the weather. Despite his mothers’ efforts to prevent him going into an industry that had taken the lives of some of her immediate family, Rex spent nearly 50 years making a living from the seas around his childhood home and along the Fiordland Coast. He remembers a time when crayfish were considered not worth catching. In this profile he gives an account of those early days and...

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...