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Oral history

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 961 Collections and/or Records:

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

DENNY, Philip John (Phil) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 52
Identifier: H0557
Overview Farm development was a major government policy in the 1950s and 1960s and the Te Anau Basin underwent the largest South Island scheme across four decades. Although a new kid on the Long Valley Block in 1968, Phil had previously gained stock management experience on a stud farm in Mid-Canterbury. Before that, he had worked on farms across Southland and in Canterbury as a shearer as well as a general hand. In this profile, Phil talks about some of that work experience and focuses on the...
Dates: 2005 - 2006

DEVON, Lavinia Te Rua Huihui interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 33
Identifier: H0270
Overview This interview is part of the Grand Hotel Project. Lavinia worked at the Grand Hotel from 1959 to 1962. She became the second cook under Mrs Dickson.
Dates: 2016

DICKSON, Ivy May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau

 Record Group — Box 38
Identifier: H0376
Overview Ivy talks about her family and childhood. She recalls looking after the family cows as a child. She worked at the Underwood Sugar of Milk factory after leaving school. After a housefire at their property in Makarewa, Ivy and her husband William John and their four children moved to Edendale. She recalls the biggest change in her life was the instillation of electricity.
Dates: 1991

DIXON, Ngarita Helen Interviewed by Pamela Smith

 Record Group — Box 60
Identifier: H0498
Overview This interview is one of eight undertaken by Pamela Smith and Tuatapere residents conducted as part of a thesis on social change in a rural community. The completed thesis is titled "Whatever happened to Tuatapere. Are we doing very nicely thank you?". In the interviews the participants discuss their early life, aspects of life in Tuatapere and their thoughts on the community at the time of the interview and into the future.
Dates: 2008