Oral history
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Found in 926 Collections and/or Records:
HOPGOOD, Shani interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box 35
Identifier: H0326
Overview
This interview was recorded as part of a project to celebrate of 125 years of Women's Suffrage in New Zealand.
Dates:
2018
HORRELL, Albert Edwin John interviewed by Avis McDonald
Record Group — Box 55
Identifier: H0621
Overview
Bert Horrell was born in Gore in 1917. Describes how his grandfather emigrated to New Zealand in the 1880s. Talks about their farm across the Mataura River and the difficulty of crossing it to get to school. Mentions how his father, as a child, had learned how to cross the river with a horse and dray full of school children. Talks about his father buying a farm at Mandeville. Describes going to Mandeville school, conditions, teachers Alan Prentice and Miss Barclay and sitting Proficiency....
Dates:
1998
HOSKINS, Dorothy Anne interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box 10
Identifier: H0073
Overview
In this interview Dorothy talks of her early family history, life and memories. She gives a detailed description of her father working for the Hokonui Rabbit Board; and goes on to describe her education and later training as a Homecraft teacher. Dorothy includes a description of domestic life when she was growing up, her interest in Judo and stock-car racing, and the effects of the 1984 floods on her extended family.
Dates:
2009
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Digital Image
Identifier: DH02800004
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Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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Digital Image
Identifier: DH02800005
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Southland Oral History Project
HOWDEN, Malcolm Graham (Mac) interviewed by Richard Savory
Record Group — Box 37
Identifier: H0360
Dates:
2018
HOWDEN, Violet May interviewed by Richard Savory
Record Group — Box 37
Identifier: H0361
Dates:
2018
HUTCHINS, Olive Doreen interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 51
Identifier: H0550
Overview
For about twenty years, Olive was a member of the Board of Directors of Real Journeys (formerly trading as Fiordland Travel Ltd), one of New Zealand's largest tourist operators. Her late husband, Les Hutchins, was instrumental in shaping and developing tourism in Fiordland from small beginnings in 1954 to the multi-million dollar industry it has become in 2005.
In this profile, Olive describes the changes she has witnessed from life on a farm in Myross Bush, bringing up a young family on the...
Dates:
2005
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