Box 52
Container
Contains 23 Results:
DENNY, Philip John (Phil) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0557
Overview
Farm development was a major government policy in the 1950s and 1960s and the Te Anau Basin underwent the largest South Island scheme across four decades. Although a new kid on the Long Valley Block in 1968, Phil had previously gained stock management experience on a stud farm in Mid-Canterbury. Before that, he had worked on farms across Southland and in Canterbury as a shearer as well as a general hand. In this profile, Phil talks about some of that work experience and focuses on the...
Dates:
2005 - 2006
SHAW, Hunter John Douglas interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0556
Overview
Hunter's first encounter with the forests and lakes of Fiordland occurred when his parents shifted south from Auckland bringing him and his younger brother with them. From an early age the allure of the bush stayed with him and by his late teens he knew it was where he wanted to live and work. For the next twenty-five years, Hunter became a professional deer hunter setting up his own base in the Back Valley of Manapouri. Taking knowledge from older bushmen and hunters, he rebuilt former cattle...
Dates:
2005
Abstract of Philip John (Phil) DENNY, 2006
Item — Box: 52
Identifier: H05570002
Abstract
Interviewee: Phil Denny Date: 17 November 2005Interviewer and abstracter: Morag ForresterTape counter: TCM 939Tape 1 Side A005: States he is PHILIP JOHN DENNY and that he was born in 1940 at the HOME STREET MATERNITY UNIT in WINTON.025: Describes WINTON as a town that services the RURAL SECTOR with branchoffices of the major banks and stock firms. 032: Replies that his FATHER was HUBERT DENNY and that he...
Dates:
2006
Oral History Interview of Hunter John Douglas SHAW by Morag FORRESTER [15 and 17 August 2005], 2005
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: H05560001
Dates:
2005
Abstract of Hunter John Douglas SHAW, 2005
Item — Box: 52
Identifier: H05560002
Abstract
Interviewee: Hunter Shaw Date: 15 August 2005Interviewer and Abstracter: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A007: Opens discussion saying his full name is HUNTER JOHN DOUGLAS SHAW and that he was born in 1942 in AUCKLAND.012: Replies that both his PARENTS came from ENGLAND and that his FATHER was JOHN HENRY (SHAW) although he was better known as LUCKY. 035: States his FATHER was born in 1918...
Dates:
2005
Oral History Interview of Philip John (Phil) DENNY interviewed by Morag FORRESTER [17 November 2005 and 3 February 2006], 2005 - 2006
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: H05570001
Dates:
2005 - 2006
KIRKWOOD, Thomas Steadman (Tom) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0561
Overview
Forty years ago the Te Anau Basin underwent dramatic change as a result of some large government projects. The country's biggest farm development scheme had begun in the Te Anau Basin the previous decade, but its real effects on the landscape and community was not apparent until the 1960s and 1970s. As a farm manager and field officer for the Department of Lands & Survey during that time, Tom recalls what was involved in the development of the area he was appointed to oversee - the...
Dates:
2006
Oral History Interview of Thomas Steadman (Tom) KIRKWOOD by Morag FORRESTER [25 September 20086], 2006
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: H05610001
Dates:
2006
Abstract of Thomas Steadman (Tom) KIRKWOOD, 2006
Item — Box: 52
Identifier: H05610002
Abstract
Interviewee: Thomas Steadman (Tom) Kirkwood Date: 25 September 2006Interviewer: Morag Forrester
Tape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A008: States he is THOMAS STEADMAN KIRKWOOD and that he was born in 1932 in a maternity home at MILTON, SOUTH OTAGO.019: Says his early years were spent in WAIKOUAITI, on the coast north of DUNEDIN
adding that he was one of a family of five BOYS and two GIRLS. (Mentions...
Dates:
2006
Minutes of the Lands and Surveys Farm Managers Conference at the Te Anau Hotel on 28 July 1963, 1963
Item — Box: 52
Identifier: H05610003
Dates:
1963