Abstract of Lindsay DICKSON, 2021
Item — Box: 25
Identifier: H04070002
Notes
(Please note that this is not a formal abstract but notes made by the interviewer during the interview)
Lindsay Dickson
Interview: 13 November 2019
Interviewer: Judith Thomas
Focus of interview: farming in Edendale and Dunsdale 1940-2007
Track 1
Born Edendale – end of War - railway line. School - marbles, bullrush, milk, cocoa. Drover Frank Dutton, stock whip, school baths – heated from factory. School bus, 200 acres farm, homestead, 5 bedrooms – open fires. Dad from Wendon, monkey puzzle trees. Brother, Dad sportsman, grandparent’s farmers, grandmother in bed – arthritis, Grandad Dickson Mayor of Riverton, tiger skin, grandma Dickson from Ireland, Brydone, Waitaki Boarding School 14 years, tables, dining room, train, interests.
Track 2
Sports, morning routine, 2 years there, worked for Dad – working at Waianawa, hut. Bob & Nan Hubber, Edendale sold, Dunsdale (Lindsay 17 years). Farm twice the size as Edendale. Dunsdale stream, Hedgehope River, new tractors, draining ground, wheat, work all night. (Edendale to Brydon tar sealing). Boot repairer, tacks. Cheese factory – cans, chaff stacks, foxy dog.
Track 3
Garages (3), hairdresser, 2 stores, Jack Shanks, Bakery – Irvines bread. Beck rural mail delivery. Exchange. (Geordie – Pony) – cattle yards, 4 years). Hedgehope – Derek Dynnes, concrete posts, digging holes. Petrol – farm delivery. “Blink bonnie”. Hillis, Clark, Titters, ?, Bolger’s, Pasks, Lenard’s, Caldwell’s. Meeting Shirley – marriage her farm, old house foundations – tar – fences – wild pigs – 80 coils netting – rock – Dunsdale Valley – neighbour.
Track 4
Picnic ground, 1400 sheep – wild sheep – merino – early surveyors’ food supply. Ticks. Rabbits. Poison. Horses burnt. No phone. Phone on. Drain plough – traction engine – Hedgehope – Freshwater Mussels – Perch – Māori fish (Old Boundary fence – Ota Creek.) sawmills – Broad Smalls.
Track 5
Jim Cussens. Fishing, Woolshed (Search and Rescue Police) – (railway, Hedgehope) English names (Māori – food bowl and lookout). Coal 1864. Gold, clay post cutting, timber 1930 – farmers walk off land, water, pig, deer, glow-worms.
Track 6
Adze, Children, Hunter Jardine Sally. Grandchildren. Hokonui moonshine, Photography, Hedgehope Church – 1923. Police – moonshine – cost of whiskey
Lindsay Dickson
Interview: 13 November 2019
Interviewer: Judith Thomas
Focus of interview: farming in Edendale and Dunsdale 1940-2007
Track 1
Born Edendale – end of War - railway line. School - marbles, bullrush, milk, cocoa. Drover Frank Dutton, stock whip, school baths – heated from factory. School bus, 200 acres farm, homestead, 5 bedrooms – open fires. Dad from Wendon, monkey puzzle trees. Brother, Dad sportsman, grandparent’s farmers, grandmother in bed – arthritis, Grandad Dickson Mayor of Riverton, tiger skin, grandma Dickson from Ireland, Brydone, Waitaki Boarding School 14 years, tables, dining room, train, interests.
Track 2
Sports, morning routine, 2 years there, worked for Dad – working at Waianawa, hut. Bob & Nan Hubber, Edendale sold, Dunsdale (Lindsay 17 years). Farm twice the size as Edendale. Dunsdale stream, Hedgehope River, new tractors, draining ground, wheat, work all night. (Edendale to Brydon tar sealing). Boot repairer, tacks. Cheese factory – cans, chaff stacks, foxy dog.
Track 3
Garages (3), hairdresser, 2 stores, Jack Shanks, Bakery – Irvines bread. Beck rural mail delivery. Exchange. (Geordie – Pony) – cattle yards, 4 years). Hedgehope – Derek Dynnes, concrete posts, digging holes. Petrol – farm delivery. “Blink bonnie”. Hillis, Clark, Titters, ?, Bolger’s, Pasks, Lenard’s, Caldwell’s. Meeting Shirley – marriage her farm, old house foundations – tar – fences – wild pigs – 80 coils netting – rock – Dunsdale Valley – neighbour.
Track 4
Picnic ground, 1400 sheep – wild sheep – merino – early surveyors’ food supply. Ticks. Rabbits. Poison. Horses burnt. No phone. Phone on. Drain plough – traction engine – Hedgehope – Freshwater Mussels – Perch – Māori fish (Old Boundary fence – Ota Creek.) sawmills – Broad Smalls.
Track 5
Jim Cussens. Fishing, Woolshed (Search and Rescue Police) – (railway, Hedgehope) English names (Māori – food bowl and lookout). Coal 1864. Gold, clay post cutting, timber 1930 – farmers walk off land, water, pig, deer, glow-worms.
Track 6
Adze, Children, Hunter Jardine Sally. Grandchildren. Hokonui moonshine, Photography, Hedgehope Church – 1923. Police – moonshine – cost of whiskey
Dates
- 2021
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Extent
From the Record Group: 1 folder(s)
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- From the Record Group: Thomas, Judith (Interviewer, Person)
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