Farm life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:
FERGUSON, Wendy Patricia Evelyn by Cathy Macfie
Record Group
Identifier: H0419
Overview
This interview covers Wendy's family's history in Otatara and her upbringing on a farm. Wendy talks about her husband and his accidental death in a car crash. She also talks about the Otatara community throughout her life.
Dates:
2020
FITZHARRIS, Annie Teresa (Trissie) interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group
Identifier: H0668
Dates:
[unknown]
FRASER, Lovat Hugh interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group
Identifier: H0563
Overview
A retired farmer, Lovat has experienced life on very different rural properties in the Te Anau Basin. As a child he and his brothers grew up amid the tussocks and sheep of a small pastoral run, The Gorge. During his early married life, he experienced farming in eastern Southland and at Mossburn until 1970 when he was one of the successful applicants of the ballot system for the government's new farm settlements in the Te Anau Basin. During this interview Lovat gives a personal account of the...
Dates:
2006
GALLAND, George Joseph William (Joe) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group
Identifier: H0524
Overview
In this interview Joe talks about his early life in Otago, Waikouaiti and then Dunedin. On leaving school Joe took up shearing. Joe then recounts his experiences of WWII in some detail. Joe served in the air force and was prisoner of war from 1943 to the end of the war, after his plane was shot down in Egypt. On his return Joe married and took on a lease for Elmwood Station at The Key. Initially Jo grew fescue, which was exported to the US, and made more money than sheep. Joe goes on to...
Dates:
2003 - 2004
GORDON, Patricia Dawn (Patsy) interviewed by Margaret Ann Irving
Record Group
Identifier: H0589
Dates:
2022 - 2023
HART, Eileen Sarah interviewed by Warrick McCallum
Record Group
Identifier: H0310
Overview
In this interview, Eileen talks of her family history, her father’s work history and her father eeling to help supplement the family’s food as well as her mother cooking duck. They were a large family of eight children and Eileen walked 3 miles to school. She goes on to talk about Pahia, attending the school, the local store, hall and dances; her work as a house cleaner and meeting and marrying her husband, Jack. Eileen goes on to discuss gold mining around the area and of the Chinese miners...
Dates:
2002
Harvesting - haystack
Digital Image
Identifier: DH02400004
Dates:
No Date
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Harvesting - using the sweep, No Date
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H02400003
Dates:
No Date
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