Oral history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1013 Collections and/or Records:
Southland Technical College Class Photograph, c.1947
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H02800011
Dates:
c.1947
SPEIGHT, William Allan (Bill) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group
Identifier: H0523
Overview
In this interview, Bill talks about his life on Redcliff Station, a vast sheep and cattle station bordering the Waiau River and Fiordland National Park on the west, and the Takitimu Mountains to the east. Bill discusses his early schooling by correspondence, then boarding at schools in Canterbury before going to university at Otago. Bill talks about growing fescue as an extra to sheep and cattle farming on the station and issues with rabbits. He goes on to talk about developments in the area,...
Dates:
2004
SQUIRES, Clare Torrance interviewed by Lee Wadds
Record Group
Identifier: H0079
Overview
In this interview Claire discusses her families association with Stewart Island, their careers and interests. She includes a description of traveling from Wellington to Stewart via ferry and train. She also covers her career choices training first as a nurse then as a kindergarten teacher, her marriage and children and her husband’s career in medicine, his life works and death.
Dates:
2010
STANCOMBE, Clara Faulds interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group
Identifier: H0185
Overview
In this interview Clara recalls her early life, family, education, growing up around Tuatapere, employment, being a member of the Volunteer Aids Group during the war and marriage.
Dates:
2013
STANTON, Jane Louise interviewed by Avis McDonald
Record Group
Identifier: H0065
Overview
This interview was recorded as part of the About Us Voices of Southland collection. In this interview Jane talks of her early life, family, her sporting interests, employment and personal relationships. She goes on to talk about her company the Seriously Good Chocolate Company its beginnings, evolution to the business it is today and her aspirations for it in the future.
Dates:
2011
STEARNE, Patricia Ann (Pat) interviewed by Nancy Burnett
Record Group
Identifier: H0161
Overview
This interview is a topic based interview about the 1984 flood and was recorded following the 25th anniversary of the flood. In this interview Pat gives a background to her involvement as a volunteer as a St John Ambulance Officer in Otautau. She goes onto describe the 1984 flood in Otautau, the preparation for evacuation, watching the water break through, no telephone communication, the taking of a patient to Kew Hospital and the flood condition observed on the way. Pat also tells of the after...
Dates:
2009
STEEL, Elizabeth Margaret (Betty) interviewed by Gloria McHutchon
Record Group
Identifier: H0636
Dates:
2020 - 2021
STEPHENS, Annie and Kenneth Earle interviewed by Janice Templeton
Record Group
Identifier: H0305
Overview
Annie tells her family history and meeting her husband and their marriage of over 50 years. When they were first married, they lived in a cottage at Trails Mill near Riverton. She gives a brief history of this time and of the area. Within her family she had an Uncle John Holland who invented the Holland submarine, which was the first submarine in the British navy. Annie talks about her children and their education and employment. She gives further details of Moore’s Mill owners, managers and...
Dates:
1999
Stevens Family at "Westwood"
Digital Image
Identifier: DH03040004
Dates:
1911
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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