Tapanui (N.Z.)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Irene Margaret Kennedy: Tapanui's Postwoman (on bike)
Digital Image
Identifier: DH00310016
Dates:
1970s
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Irene Margaret Kennedy: Tapanui's Postwoman (on bike), 1970s
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00310016
Dates:
1970s
Irene Margaret Kennedy: Tapanui's Postwoman (outside post office)
Digital Image
Identifier: DH00310015
Dates:
1970s
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Irene Margaret Kennedy: Tapanui's Postwoman (outside post office), 1970s
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00310015
Dates:
1970s
KENNEDY Irene Margaret interviewed by Joy Lietze
Record Group — Box 22
Identifier: H0031
Overview
This interview covers Irene's early life in Browns and her time in the Women's War Service Auxiliary working in a flax mill in Tapanui. After the war she remained in Tapanui and worked first in the hospital and then in the Post Office where she worked as the local postie for 18 years. Irene was very keen on fishing, she fished actively for over 50 years and enjoyed meeting interesting people along the riverbank. Irene was Area Representative for Student Travel Schools.
Dates:
2010