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Bluff (N.Z.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Alan K Buckingham Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0617
Overview Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1959 - 1971

ASHWELL, Harold Francis interviewed by Gail Jefferies

 Record Group — Box 35
Identifier: H0317
Overview In this interview Harold talks of family education and employment. He goes on to give a detailed account of mutton birding – the life cycle of the birds, their habitat, the process of retrieving them, the preparation of the birds for storage and eating, landing on the rocks to start with and now being helicoptered in. He tells of the accommodation on the Islands and how they have been modernised and the ownership of the Islands. He also discusses the early history and interactions of Māori and...
Dates: 2001

ASHWELL, Reginald George interviewed by Pat Christiansen

 Record Group — Box 38
Identifier: H0368
Overview Reginald Ashwell was born in Bluff in 1914. In this interview, Reginald iscusses his children, parents, grandparents and kaumatua. He mentions that his wife Peg worked in the Bluff Theatre. He talks about being in the army and World War II. Reginald discusses oysters, muttonbirding and the Irwin's (Urwin's) Fishing Company. He talks about the Stewart Island ferries, the harbour and Bluff shops in the 1920s and discusses his hobby of making walking sticks and woodwork.
Dates: 1998

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

Bluff Cemeteries

 Record Group
Identifier: A0048
Dates: Majority of material found within 1961 - 1991

Bluff School

 Record Group
Identifier: A0139
School status Open school [1867 - present]
Dates: Majority of material found within 1882 - 1989

BRADSHAW, Rex Lindsay John interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0551
Overview Rex grew up in the 1930s on Stewart Island surrounded by the sea and people whose lives were ruled by the tides and the weather. Despite his mothers’ efforts to prevent him going into an industry that had taken the lives of some of her immediate family, Rex spent nearly 50 years making a living from the seas around his childhood home and along the Fiordland Coast. He remembers a time when crayfish were considered not worth catching. In this profile he gives an account of those early days and...
Dates: 2004

Foster Postcard and Photograph Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0630
Overview Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1910 - 1917

Grant Postcard and Photograph Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0637
Overview Processing Note: This collection has been partially arranged and described. A large amount of unprocessed material remains in Accession ICF70. Contact Archives staff for details.Contains 204 digital copies of black and white and colour postcards from around Invercargill and Southland. Includes Estuary, Botanic Gardens, Tay, Dee and Esk Streets, Cathedral, Hospitals, Post Office, Oreti Beach, Town Hall, views from Water Tower, Thomson's Bush, Makarewa Bush,...
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1910 - 2000

Greenhills School

 Record Group
Identifier: A0228
Overview Processing Note This collection has been partially arranged and described. A small amount of unprocessed material remains in Accessions ICA01.004 and ICE34. Contact Archives staff for details.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1889 - 2001