Fiordland (N.Z.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 103 Collections and/or Records:
FRASER, Lovat Hugh interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 53
Identifier: H0563
Overview
A retired farmer, Lovat has experienced life on very different rural properties in the Te Anau Basin. As a child he and his brothers grew up amid the tussocks and sheep of a small pastoral run, The Gorge. During his early married life, he experienced farming in eastern Southland and at Mossburn until 1970 when he was one of the successful applicants of the ballot system for the government's new farm settlements in the Te Anau Basin. During this interview Lovat gives a personal account of the...
Dates:
2006
GALLAND, George Joseph William (Joe) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 47
Identifier: H0524
Overview
In this interview Joe talks about his early life in Otago, Waikouaiti and then Dunedin. On leaving school Joe took up shearing. Joe then recounts his experiences of WWII in some detail. Joe served in the air force and was prisoner of war from 1943 to the end of the war, after his plane was shot down in Egypt. On his return Joe married and took on a lease for Elmwood Station at The Key. Initially Jo grew fescue, which was exported to the US, and made more money than sheep. Joe goes on to...
Dates:
2003 - 2004
George, Bligh and Milford Sounds [copy]
Digital Image
Identifier: D00100001_j
Dates:
1851
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
George, Bligh and Milford Sounds [copy], 1851
Component — Map-box 1: Series S0010
Identifier: S00100001_j
Scope and Contents
New Zealand Middle Island, Province of Otago. George, Bligh and Milford Sounds. Surveyed by Captain J.L. Stokes, Commander G.H. Richards, F.J. Evans, Master, R. Bradshaw, Mate, J.W. Simth (Smith?), 2nd Master, F.W. Oke and D. Pender, Masters Assistants R.N. H.M.S. Acheron 1851.
Dates:
1851
GILLIGAN, Kathlyn Anne (Kathy) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 47
Identifier: H0527
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...
Dates:
2004
GILLIGAN, Terence John (Terry) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 47
Identifier: H0528
Overview
In this interview, Terry outlines the history of his family in New Zealand. His Grandfather was Ernie Govan who leased the Te Anau Hotel and administered the Milford Track. Terry's early years were spent in Mossburn but due to ill health he also spent time in Te Anau. Terry took over his father's transport business in 1953. The business prospered due to the increased activity in the Te Anau area and in 1964 he amalgamated the business into Northern Southland Transport, where he stayed until...
Dates:
2004
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
GUNN, Murray Alexander interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 55
Identifier: H0581
Overview
For most of his life, the Hollyford Valley has played a significant role in Murray's life. As a boy it was a distant place where his father, Davey Gunn, tried to make a living as a high country farmer. On the other side of the country, Murray grew up in Oamaru surrounded by women, his mother, aunt and two sisters. His first visit to the Hollyford was as a schoolboy in the late 1930s when he was one of a party on a walking holiday. The contrast between his home environment and that of his...
Dates:
2008
HARRAWAY, Eoin David (Dave) interviewed by Kenneth Bradley
Record Group — Box 54
Identifier: H0573
Overview
Dave spent about eighteen years working as a shepherd and farm manager in the remote back country ranges between Mossburn and Te Anau before and after the government's 30-year farm development scheme in the same region. This interview looks at the changes Dave experienced working for an individual runholder whose attachment to, and investment in, the Burwood/Mavora/Centre Hill area could not compete with the government agency that by 1966 had bought the rights to the leasehold properties and...
Dates:
2008
HAZLETT, William Nicholl (Bill) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 50
Identifier: H0547
Overview
Before the government undertook a major farm development programme in the Te Anau Basin between the 1950s and 1980s, the scattered large leasehold runs were in the hands of individuals/families. The Hazlet family of Invercargill took up the Burwood, Centre Hill and Mavora Runs in the 1920s but it wasn't until the estate became the responsibility of Bill's father (also named Bill) in the late 1940s that major developments were pioneered with the help of the newly introduced system of...
Dates:
2005
