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Fishing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

BARNES, Clifford Henry (Cliff) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 52
Identifier: H0559
Overview The son of a shearer who worked in the Te Anau Basin during the 1940s, Cliff's first introduction to the district was in 1945. Since then he has developed extensive knowledge of the deer-run hinterland as well as the craggy coastline of the southern fiords where he spent many years both as fisherman and tourism operator. In this interview, Cliff remembers traditional skills such as blade-shearing and oyster-catching as well as forming a small tourism business in Doubtful Sound. He also talks...
Dates: 2006

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

CHARTRES, Susan interviewed by Lynley Soper

 Record Group — Box 33
Identifier: H0250
Overview In this interview Susan talks about family history, the purchase of their farm and her schools in detail. She covers subjects such as social occasions in the woolshed the food served and the music that was played. Susan recalls local history around The Key, Te Anau and Manapouri including: live deer recovery by helicopter and fishing.
Dates: 2016

DEAKER, Cyril Richard (Dick) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 53
Identifier: H0567
Overview It was 1960 when Dick Deaker first set foot in Fiordland as a schoolboy introduced to deerhunting expeditions. Three years later, he was back on a more permanent basis having started work as a deer culler in the nearby Takitimu Mountains and the Murchison Mountains/Takahe area. It wasn't long after gaining a private pilot's licence in 1968 that he combined his two great interests — hunting and aviation. By bringing out the deer he shot in his fixed wing Piper Cub, he could sell for a relatively...
Dates: 2007

HARRINGTON, Henry interviewed by Lloyd Esler

 Record Group — Box 10
Identifier: H0027
Overview This interview covers Henry’s retirement to Ohai and the attractions of the area e.g. good trout fishing. It also covers his passion for saving seeds where he saves ‘anything at all’. Plus the storage of these, Maori potatoes, crop rotation and pest remedies. Henry describes carrot varieties and flavours and how to grow them.
Dates: 2006

Hubert [Bert] Earle Denny Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A0718
Processing Information This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for full details of collection content.

It contains one fishing diary, dated 1905-1906.

Diary has mention of incident where Christopher Shears was lost overboard from the ketch Endor (under Captain Roderique) between Dusky Sound and Chalky Inlet on the 31st March 1906 during a fishing trip to the West Coast.

Includes catch numbers and prices.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1905-1906

KENNEDY Irene Margaret interviewed by Joy Lietze

 Record Group — Box 22
Identifier: H0031
Overview This interview covers Irene's early life in Browns and her time in the Women's War Service Auxiliary working in a flax mill in Tapanui. After the war she remained in Tapanui and worked first in the hospital and then in the Post Office where she worked as the local postie for 18 years. Irene was very keen on fishing, she fished actively for over 50 years and enjoyed meeting interesting people along the riverbank. Irene was Area Representative for Student Travel Schools.
Dates: 2010

MOSS, David Thomas (Dave) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 53
Identifier: H0564
Overview The tourism industry has been an essential contributor to the local economy of the Te Anau Basin since the formation of the Milford Track in the late 1800s. Following the opening of a vehicle route to Milford Sound in the 1950s, the number of visitors to the district has grown to the extent that an estimated 650,000 people a year spend at least a few hours at Milford. Dave Moss, has just retired from the local hospitality industry after about 35 years involvement. First, he was at Milford...
Dates: 2006

SCHOFIELD, Clarence Murray interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 49
Identifier: H0541
Overview Murray, now in his eighties, was selected as a participant in this oral history project because of his work with the Fiordland National Park in its earlier stages as well as his experience as a fisherman on the Fiordland coast. There are several other topics lightly touched upon in the interview, some of them highlighting the many changes that occurred in New Zealand society through the second half of the 20th century.
Dates: 2004