Te Anau (N.Z.)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:
SPEIGHT, William Allan (Bill) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 47
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
STROUD, Winifred Elsie (Win) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 50
Identifier: H0546
Overview
Win is among the few remaining people who grew up in the Te Anau Basin when it was still considered remote and inaccessible with land covered in tussock and scrub that was only useful for grazing stock. As the youngest child of Henry F. Blatch, runholder of Lynwood Station (originally gazetted as the Te Anau Lake Run 301B) between 1906 and 1951, Win recalls a childhood of walks and picnics in the Basin as well as some of the events that dramatically changed the lives of her immediate family and...
Dates:
2005
Te Anau Household School
Record Group
Identifier: A0462
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1918 - 1921
TEMPLETON, William Stewart Reid (Bill) interviewed by Avis McDonald
Record Group — Box 37
Identifier: H0354
Overview
In this interview Bill covers family history, education, family’s work in the Flax Milling Industry and his desire to farm. He farmed in various areas around southland/Fiordland. He highlights his ability to work with sheep dogs and his work as a back country fencer prior to farming in Te Anau.
Dates:
2018
THOMAS, Edwin James (Ted) Interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 50
Identifier: H0542
Overview
Ted Thomas is a prolific artist of Fiordland landscapes. Before taking up the easel and brush, he was involved in a variety of different enterprises from building commercial properties to running a milk bar. This interview concentrates on his involvement in the Fiordland Venison Industry as a meat processing and packaging factory owner and operator. Starting in Mossbum and moving to Te Anau in the early 1960s, Ted provides some details about how he got into the business and who he worked with....
Dates:
2005
THOMAS Raymond George (Ray) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 54
Identifier: H0580
Overview
From a young age, Ray knew that he wanted to become a sheep farmer. After leaving school he completed tertiary studies in commerce and agriculture at Lincoln College. Having also got married to the daughter of a farmer, he went on to work at her family's farm near Riversdale before securing a position as shepherd in the Moa Flat area. It was there that Ray and Ruth decided to apply for a balloted farm under the government's citizen settlement scheme which ran for almost thirty years until the...
Dates:
2008
THOMPSON, Vernon Albert (Vern) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 53
Identifier: H0566
Overview
Vernon Thompson has been hunting wild deer since boyhood. A rapid rise in deer numbers in the south by the late 1950s meant he and his brothers, Bill and Nelson, were able to turn a weekend interest into a commercial enterprise. At first, using boats built in their fathers woolshed, the Thompson boys kept within the Lake Monowai and southem coastal areas. But increasing competition pushed Vernon to move to Te Anau where he was able to work as a groundhunter on the lake shores as well as those...
Dates:
2007
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