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Riverton (N.Z.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

HAMLIN Frank Albert (Albie) interviewed by Janice Templeton

 Record Group — Box 11
Identifier: H0039
Overview In this interview Albie tells of his early life and education at Gummies Bush/Wild Bush; his employment history at the Dairy Factory and later on the Pest Board. He gives detailed descriptions of methods used for the eradication of rabbits. Albie went to war and tells of his involvement and experiences. He was a prisoner of war for two years. In 1975 he and his wife joined the Prisoner Of War Association tour through Europe.
Dates: 2006

HILL, Ken and Catherine interviewed by Lynne Grove

 Record Group — Box 39
Identifier: H0103
Overview This interview is a topic-based interview covering ditch digging and land drainage in Southland. Ken and Catherine talk about the recollections of a common grandfather, Ernie Coster, who was a ditch digger.
Dates: 2006

HINKLEY, Nalda Carolyn interviewed by Richard Savory

 Record Group — Box 10
Identifier: H0075
Overview In this interview Nalda looks extensively at her family history in Tasmania and their settling Riverton. She details her parent’s hotel, talks of school holidays, entertainment for children at Riverton, her own education and later employment. She reflects on the outbreak of WW2, its effects, joining the army, meeting her husband and his participation in Greece with 23rd battalion. She discusses Gratuities and Rehabilitation Assistance, the building of their first home and family life.
Dates: 2009

Invercargill and Southland Photograph and Postcard Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0291
Overview This collection consists of small donations of photographs and postcards given to the Archive by a number of different donors. They have been arranged and described together into this collection for ease of use.
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1865 - c.1950s

JENKINS, William Ernest (Bill) and Maureen interviewed by Janice TEMPLETON

 Record Group — Box 32
Identifier: H0245
Overview In this interview Bill describes his work in the Boiler House at Riverton Hospital e.g. powering the boiler, shifts and hours of work, and some of the people he worked with e.g. Don Wells, Ken Stevens and Brian Stewart. Maureen worked as a physiotherapist at the hospital.
Dates: 2016

LAKE, Sadie Margaret interviewed by Janice Templeton

 Record Group — Box 17
Identifier: H0084
Overview This interview of a Waipango/Riverton native covers her family, her home at Birch Bush farm in Waipango, Southland, her grandmother’s home in Riverton, domestic life, her schools, her family’s farm and its workers. Also covers her early employment, start in nursing, illness with tuberculosis, and experience as both a patient and nurse at Orangapai Sanatorium in Waipiata; her marriage to Charles Lake; and their life as a hired farming couple on several different farms in the Southland and...
Dates: 2011

LEWIS, David interviewed by Janice Templeton

 Record Group — Box 33
Identifier: H0246
Overview In this interview, David talks about his time as the gardener looking after the extensive grounds of the Riverton Hospital in from 1977 into the early 1990s when the hospital was sold to become a private elderly care home. David describes his duties and some of the other staff at the hospital who would help him.
Dates: 2016