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SCULLY, Raymond Francis interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group
Identifier: H0100
Overview
This interview is part of the Headcases Collaborative Art Project, done in conjunction with the Southland Festival of the Arts and the Cancer Society. In this interview Raymond talks about his family history, his father’s occupation on the Rabbit Board giving detail of the use of ferrets in rabbiting. He also shares school day memories and education; his employment - first farming and later in the Peat Soil industry. He describes the process of processing peat; it’s uses and becoming the...
Dates:
2012
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Seaward Downs School
Record Group
Identifier: A0404
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1891 - 1981
Found in:
Invercargill City Council Archives
Seaward Moss School
Record Group
Identifier: A0409
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1893 - 1926
Found in:
Invercargill City Council Archives
SELBIE, Helen Audrey interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group
Identifier: H0105
Overview
In this interview Helen talks of her family history, life and education in Australia and her family’s love of music and her passion for ballet. She also looks at her sibling’s careers and marriages and her own career in physiotherapy. She then talks of her own marriage, children, life on the farm, farming practice and crops grown e.g. Fescue seed, Cockswood Grass, Red Clover and the planting of a forestry block. Helen also looks at her husband John’s family history and her social life centred...
Dates:
2013
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
SHARP, Edward Andrew interview by Bruce Cavanagh
Record Group
Identifier: H0423
Dates:
2010
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
SHAVE, Norma Irene Annetta interviewed by Rangimaria Suddaby and Shona Fordyce
Record Group
Identifier: H0113
Overview
Norma recalls her education and employment at a Thornbury farm, leisure activities e.g. fly fishing, dances, growing vegetables, learning to drive and doing the drivers licence test. At the age of 12 Norma decided she wanted to be a nurse and put her name down to become a nurse at Kew Hospital aged 20/21. She goes on to give an account of a fire at Kew Hospital in August 1939, the evacuation of patients and the repurposing of Lorne Hospital for patients. In 1950 she travelled to London to work...
Dates:
2012
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
SHAW, Hunter John Douglas interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group
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
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
SHAW, Margaret Noeline interviewed by Anne McCracken
Record Group
Identifier: H0629
Dates:
2023
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
SHEARING, Raymond Robert Francis interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group
Identifier: H0003
Overview
This interview covers Raymond’s life in Western Southland, his memories of life as a child on the family farm, the work and machinery. Has a collection of machinery in a private Museum at Waipango, Describes the retrieval of a tractor from 52 feet of water - there for 22 years. He talks of the trials and tribulations of the financial side of farming. He also had a contracting business.
Dates:
2010
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
SHEPHERD, Solomon interviewed by Graham McConechy
Record Group
Identifier: H0355
Overview
In this short recording, Solomon Shepherd tells the story of the making of the Feldwick Gates at the entrance to Queens Park, Invercargill.
Dates:
1973
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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