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Western Southland District Young Farmers Club

 Record Group
Identifier: A0521
Dates: Majority of material found within 1933 - 1986
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

WHITE, Hugh (Hughie) interviewed by Senga White

 Record Group — Box: 64
Identifier: H0600
Dates: 2023
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

WHITE, Thomas Samuel Kitchener interviewed by Janice Templeton

 Record Group — Box: 18
Identifier: H0207
Overview In this interview Thomas talks of his early years growing up on a farm at Ermedale. His father was a contractor building roads around Ermedale. He talks of marrying during the war years and his return after the war when he purchased a home at Gummies Bush. Thomas goes on to talk about the mechanisation of the contracting business and working for Wallace County as well as for farmers. He shares stories of road constructed and anecdotes of things that happened to him during this time. He goes on...
Dates: 2006
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

Whitehead Household School [Waikawa]

 Record Group
Identifier: A0479
Dates: Majority of material found within 1914 - 1926
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

Whitford Southland Photograph and Postcard Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0492
Dates: 1890 - 1991
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

Wild Bush School [Waipango]

 Record Group
Identifier: A0478
Dates: Majority of material found within 1886 - 1946
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives

WILD, Eric Richard interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

 Record Group — Box: 12
Identifier: H0284
Overview In this short interview, Eric describes his time in the home guard in Tokonui at the start of World War II, when Eric was aged 16. Eric talks of being taught manoeuvres, morse code and semaphore. Eric joined the army at age 20, which ended his involvement with the home guard. In the second interview, Eric describes the early days farming at Longlands near Fortrose, including the crops grown and the people who worked on the farm.
Dates: 2004 - 2006
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

WILDERMOTH, Violet May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

 Record Group — Box: 45
Identifier: H0474
Overview In this interview Violet recalls family history, education, her apprenticeship as a Tailoress and Invercargill history e.g., the building of the Stead Street Bridge in 1922, steam boats on the Estuary, her father becoming Mayor of South Invercargill Borough and her marriage.
Dates: 1991
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

WILKES, June Alice and Ronald Stormont interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box: 30
Identifier: H0216
Overview This interview was recorded as part of the Discovering Glengarry's Community Spirit Oral History Project. In this interview Ron talks about his memories of school where he was a first day pupil at Surrey Park School. Then he and June recall building their home in Glengarry, their neighbours and the community, which was made up mostly of young families. They recall their memories of the Glengarry Shopping Centre and a shop Ron opened there selling fruit, vegetables, milk shakes etc.
Dates: 2014
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

WILLETT, Raymond William Herbert (Ray) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0575
Overview More than fifty years ago Ray first set eyes on the Fiordland Mountains while doing a tour of his adopted homeland. As a child growing up in war-time London, he immigrated to New Zealand in 1953 on the cusp of his seventeenth birthday to work on a dairy farm in Northland. Captivated by that first visit to Te Anau and Milford Sound, Ray and his wife, Helen, have lived in the Te Anau area since 1961, with only a five-year separation from the Fiordland Mountains when they worked as managers of a...
Dates: 2009
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

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1984 Southland Flood Oral History Project, 2009 14
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Bailey, Mae Florence 2
Baxter, Sylvia Muriel Mathilde 2
Booth, Vincent Paul 2
Chisholm, Robert John 2
Donaldson, John Malcolm 2
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Federated Farmers of New Zealand. Women's Division 2
Fordyce, Shona 2
Goldup, Renee 2
Harvey, Joan 2
Invercargill (N.Z.). City Council 2
Macdonald, Angus David 2
McConechy, Graham Spencer 2
McKay, Helen Margaret 2
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Milnes, Dickon John, Dr 2
Nuttall, Louis Norman (Lou) 2
Pritchard, William John (Jack) 2
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association. RSA 2
Stoddart, Edith Anne 2
Thompson, Margaret Evelyn 2
Tou, Lisa Essetera 2
Warburton, Warren Gilbert 2
Ward, Patricia Kay 2
West, Victor Clyde 2
Williamson, Wendy 2
Adams, Fiona Melissa 1
Allan, Margaret 1
Allan, Robert Bruce (Carter) 1
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Amos, Rubina Mary (Ruby) 1
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Balan, Virgina Elena (Gina) 1
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Bates, Isobel Helen 1
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