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BAKER, Russell Victor interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 53
Identifier: H0568
Overview
The Baker family's connections with the Te Anau Basin go back more than half a century when Russell's father worked on the electrical supplies during the last stages of the Homer Tunnel construction. By 1964 Te Anau had become the family's permanent home and it wasn't long before Russell combined two of his favourite pastimes deer-hunting and aviation. In the late 1960s he was involved in venison recovery as a meathunter and after passing his commercial pilot's licence in 1975 he used fixed...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BALAN Virginia Elena (Gina) interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box: 5
Identifier: H0056
Overview
This interview was recorded as part of the About Us Voices of Southland collection. This interview tells of family history, life and education under communist system in Romania. It describes the 1989 revolution and the road to democracy. Virginia discusses the process of leaving Romania in 2001 and resettling in NZ/Invercargill becoming an NZ Citizen.
Dates:
2011
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Balfour School
Record Group
Identifier: A0133
School status
Open school [1886 - present]
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1887 - 1976
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
BALLANTYNE, Colin Stewart interviewed by Rory Sweetman
Record Group — Box: 25
Identifier: H0392
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Balneaves and Robertson Family Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0621
Overview
This collection contains:- 19 WWI letters to members of the Andrew Balneaves family in Mataura, Southland, from John (Doie) Balneaves, Andrew Ewen (Ewen, Young Un) Balneaves, and William (Billy) Robertson (husband of Annie Balneaves), 1916 - 1918.- One WWI letter from A. Reid (John Alexander) to Uncle (from Mossburn, connection to Balneaves and Robertson families unknown), 1918- One WWI diary of William (Billy) Robertson, 1918. Contains small Christmas card...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1916 - 1918
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
BARKER, John Charles interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 54
Identifier: H0571
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...
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BARNES, Clifford Henry (Cliff) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0559
Overview
The son of a shearer who worked in the Te Anau Basin during the 1940s, Cliff's first introduction to the district was in 1945. Since then he has developed extensive knowledge of the deer-run hinterland as well as the craggy coastline of the southern fiords where he spent many years both as fisherman and tourism operator. In this interview, Cliff remembers traditional skills such as blade-shearing and oyster-catching as well as forming a small tourism business in Doubtful Sound. He also talks...
Dates:
2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Barnes, Evans Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0691
Processing Information
This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.
Contains:
PDF copy of Gunner Stephen Barnes' (WWI 50187) WWI diary 1917 - 1918 (includes photographs of Stephen and family)
JPEG's of Seymour Evans (WWI 43777) WWI Pay Book and JPEG's of military information contained within the standard issued Soldiers Diary
Contains:
PDF copy of Gunner Stephen Barnes' (WWI 50187) WWI diary 1917 - 1918 (includes photographs of Stephen and family)
JPEG's of Seymour Evans (WWI 43777) WWI Pay Book and JPEG's of military information contained within the standard issued Soldiers Diary
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
BARNES, Irene Rosslyn interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 52
Identifier: H0560
Overview
A resident of Manapouri for more than forty years, Irene has played an active role in the community, initially because of her parental involvement in the local schools and later as a local government representative. In addition to bringing up their five children, Irene also worked alongside her husband during the years he operated his own charter boat tour guide business in Doubtful Sound. Latterly, as well as local government issues she was also a representative on the Guardians of the...
Dates:
2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
BATES, Isobel Helen interviewed by Vanya Bailey
Record Group — Box: 46
Identifier: H0490
Dates:
2021
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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