Abstract Alister Lydon (Allie) SCOONInterviewer: Morag ForresterInterview Date: 15 December 2008Tape 1 Side A008: States he is ALISTER SCOON, born in 1931 in AUCKLAND, adding that his family had been living in NAPIER but was evacuated following a major earthquake that hit the HAWKES BAY town on 6 FEBRUARY 1931.021: Goes on to explain that the authorities had ordered the evacuation of everyone living in NAPIER "women and children first... so my...

Overview Evan's boyhood interest in deer hunting around Waimate led him, at the age of twenty-one, to apply for a job as government culler in the Te Anau Basin. Two seasons for the Forest Service were followed by several years as a shooter involved in the venison recovery industry in southern New Zealand. For almost a decade, he and his wife and children were based at Martins Bay on the Fiordland west coast before moving, in 1983, to start a new deer farm on the outskirts of Te Anau. This recording...