Overview From a young age, Ray knew that he wanted to become a sheep farmer. After leaving school he completed tertiary studies in commerce and agriculture at Lincoln College. Having also got married to the daughter of a farmer, he went on to work at her family's farm near Riversdale before securing a position as shepherd in the Moa Flat area. It was there that Ray and Ruth decided to apply for a balloted farm under the government's citizen settlement scheme which ran for almost thirty years until the...

Overview From an early age, Jeff Carter's driving ambition was to spend his time hunting deer, rabbits and possums that roamed the hills and mountain passes of southern New Zealand. Despite being cajoled into taking up a more stable occupation in motor mechanics, it was hunting that proved the enduring option especially as it developed into a financially lucrative one in the early 1970s. Bounty was to be had in the venison recovery industry in Fiordland and the reserves and basins adjacent to the...

Abstract Eoin David (Dave) HARRAWAYInterviewer: Kenneth BradleyInterview Date: 4 May 2008Tape 1. Side A003: Opens discussion saying he started work as a SHEPHERD at BURWOOD (STATION) in AUGUST 1960 and that he held that position for two years. He was then promoted to HEAD SHEPHERD and continued to work at BURWOOD a further four years.010: In 1966, he says, the DEPARTMENT of LANDS & SURVEY bought the property (which included the MAVORA RUN)...

Overview From a young age, John Barker developed a keen interest in deer hunting around the Gisbome district in which he grew up. But it was the lure of hunting the bigger Fiordland wapiti that inevitably drew him to a job at Milford Sound where his spare time was spent shooting deer and hybrid wapiti in the Fiordland mountains. Not long before his arrival, helicopters had started being used in the venison recovery industry in the same area and by the early 1970s John formed a business partnership which...

Abstract Person recorded: WILLIAM JEFFREY CARTER Date: 16 October 2007Interviewer: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A006: States he is WILLIAM JEFFREY CARTER born in 1949 in GORE, adding that his FATHER owned and ran a cycle and motorbike retail and repair shop in the town. 021: Replies that his FATHER was WILLIAM ALBERT CARTER and that his family originated from the neighbouring town of MATAURA....

Overview Leaving school as soon as he was able, Allie began his builders apprenticeship with the same Dunedin firm, McLellan Construction that employed his father. It was a move which saw Allie forge a long-term career in the building trade that led to his overseeing some major projects in the Te Anau Basin in the early 1970s, including a complete redevelopment of the fire-damaged Te Anau Hotel and an early version of eco-tourism design at Takaro Lodge on the edge of the Fiordland National Park. This...

Abstract Kenneth Evan BruntonInterviewer: Morag ForresterInterview Date: 12 August 2008Tape 1 Side A004: States he is KENNETH EVAN BRUNTON and that he was born in 1947 in TIMARU (CANTERBURY) adding that he attended both primary and secondary schools in the town.013: His FATHER, he says, was KENNETH JOHN BRUNTON whose main occupation was MILK CONTRACTOR (delivery) in TIMARU and surrounding district, including the HIGH COUNTRY STATIONS....