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Riverton (N.Z.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:

LAKE, Sadie Margaret interviewed by Janice Templeton

 Record Group
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
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

LINDSAY, Beryl Eileen Madge interviewed by Janice Templeton

 Record Group
Identifier: H0132
Overview In this interview Beryl shares her family history and stories from her life. These start with her early life in Roxburgh and Lumsden. Beryl discusses her family's purchase of their farm at Gropher’s Bush, her education, childhood games, employment and marriage to Graham. When they married, they had hens and a cow and Beryl made her own butter. During WW2 Graham was in the Home Guard and Beryl was involved with the local Patriotic Society and knitted for the soldiers, sent food parcels overseas...
Dates: 2007

Lord Jellicoe at The Rocks, Riverton, New Zealand

 Digital Image
Identifier: D01560057

Lord Jellicoe at The Rocks, Riverton, New Zealand, 1921

 Item — Drawer West 5 a: Series S0156
Identifier: S01560057
Scope and Contents The visit of the Governor General, Lord Jellicoe, to The Rocks, on 28 July 1921. House built and owned by Maurice Thompson of 151 Leet Street, Invercargill.
Dates: 1921

Marriage Registers, 1862 - 1935

 Series
Identifier: S2303
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The marriage registers include marriages for St Faith's Church (Orepuki), St Leonard's Church (Thornbury), St George's Church (Tuatapere), and Holy Trinity Church (Winton), from around the 1890s to 1930s. There are also a number of marriages in private residences.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1862 - 1935

MATHIESON, Ruth interviewed by Carolyn Deverson

 Record Group
Identifier: H0304
Overview In this interview Ruth Mathieson talks about her father Vic Stevens. Vic was the 13th of 14 children and was born in 1905. He attended Wild Bush, Riverton and Oraki Schools. When he left school he went to work on the family farm in Longwood and then he was employed by Parkinsons, an electrical installation company, in Invercargill. He worked with a gang getting houses "hooked up to the electric". Vic then mobved to the West Coast and played rugby for the Star Rugby Club and he met and married...
Dates: 2006

MCCALLUM, Warrick Linn interviewed by Robert Guyton

 Record Group
Identifier: H0139
Overview In this interview Warrick describes his early life in Woodend and Tisbury. He talks about his work as a butcher and later moving to Riverton. He talks about his involvement in racing and local government and his interest in conservation.
Dates: 2007

McPHERSON Dorothy Clare interviewed by Janice Templeton

 Record Group
Identifier: H0362
Overview In this interview Dorothy recalls her father working on the Railways, living a Waihoaka and shifting to a farm at Pahia, her education at Pahia School, working at home to help with the milking and to look after her mother and then working in the local store. Their farm was self sufficient with cows, sheep hens and a large vegetable garden. Dorothy goes on to tell of her siblings and their occupations, school life, social life and sporting interests. She tells of her marriage to Don and their...
Dates: 2018

Minutes, 1860 - 1904

 Series
Identifier: S2304
Scope and Contents Includes minutes of a General Meeting of Campbelltown (bluff) parishioners, 15 September 1869, giving a loan of one hundred pounds to Riverton
Dates: Majority of material found within 1860 - 1904