Scope and Contents From the Item: Album containing 114 photographs of early Invercargill and surrounds. The location of the original negatives is unknown, but prints of many of the images can be found in other collections around the country. Some of the photographers have been identified but are largely unknown.See the Southland Times 9th and 10th of December 1924 'Years of Change' special report which features many of the photographs alongside updated views from 1924.Numbers drawn in ink...

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Contains: Maps, photos, ephemera, theatre programmes, as well as records from the Southland Branch NZ Organic Compost Society (a.k.a. NZ Humic Compost Club Inc.).

Overview In this interview Kathy talks about her early years in Timaru and Invercargill. After leaving school Kathy worked for an accountancy firm. On her first visit to Te Anau in 1953 she met Terry Gilligan who had just started a transport business in the town. They were married in 1957 and Kathy moved to Te Anau. Conditions in the town at that stage were very different from Invercargill. Kathy found work in the local post office exchange and for Fiordland travel and in 1960 she became involved in the...