Abstract HUGH ARMSTRONG ERSKINEDATE: 30 OCTOBER 2008INTERVIEWER: PAM SMITH[NOTE: THIS IS A TRANSCRIPT NOT AN ABSTRACT WITH TIMINGS]TELL ME ABOUT YOUR EARLY LIFE? TELL ME ABOUT YOUR GRANDFATHER. WHERE DID HE COME FROM?In 1883 he settled in the TUATAPERE BUSH. He came from NORTHERN IRELAND. We were back there recently. We have relations there who are very good friends. They are not ERSKINE names now but ERSKINE DESCENDANTS.WHAT PART...

Abstract H0497: INTERVIEW WITH ROBIN FAULKNERDATE: 30 October 2008 INTERVIWER: PAM SMITH[NOTE: THIS IS A TRANSCRIPT NOT AN ABSTRACT WITH TIMINGS]ROBIN YOU GREW UP IN TUATAPERE. WAS YOUR FATHER BORN HERE OR DID HE SHIFT TO HERE?My father moved to TUATAPERE in the early 1920s. He was brought up at MOKOTUA at a place called FAULKNERS CORNER and it is now called the MONUMENT CORNER. His father came from IRELAND. I have been there. He came from...

Abstract H0498: INTERVIEW WITH NGARITA DIXONDATE: 3RD DECEMBER 2008INTERVIEWER: PAM SMITH[NOTE: THIS IS A TRANSCRIPT NOT AN ABSTRACT WITH TIMINGS]CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR EARLIER LIFE? ABOUT YOUR PARENTS? My father along with his brother GEORGE bought the BAKERY here in TUATAPERE from a JOHN HINCHCLIFF. JOHN HINCHCLIFF was here for some years and in 1922 he sold the BAKERY to my father. His BROTHER GEORGE'S family lived in...

Abstract H0499 INTERVIEW WITH DONALD BROWNDATE: 26 NOVEMBER 2008INTERVIEWER: PAM SMITH[NOTE: THIS IS A TRANSCRIPT NOT AN ABSTRACT WITH TIMINGS]TELL ME ABOUT YOUR EARLY LIFE. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR FATHER?My father came from KAPUKA SOUTH when he was a teenager about fifteen or sixteen years of age. He worked at BIRCH'S sawmill near the coast. He worked as a slabby boy or something along those lines.WHAT YEARS?We talking about...