Macfie, Cathy
Person
Interviewer with the Southland Oral History Project
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
McNAY, Norman David and Pamela June interviewed by Cathy Macfie
Record Group
Identifier: H0663
Dates:
2024
ROBBIE, Elizabeth Ann interviewed by Cathy Macfie
Record Group — Box: 61
Identifier: H0591
Overview
Ann talks family history, employment, interest and involvement in bag pipes and the Pipe Band, and incidents in her life that helped to form her beliefs and her commitment to being an advocate for vulnerable people. She became the first female Qualified Horticulturalist Arborist in NZ. She details her varied employment record and employers, marriage and family. Ann tells of the crippling interest rates in the 1980s and impacts on their farming. She goes on to tell of the hardships faced when...
Dates:
2022
WATT, William Patrick (Bill) and Francis Hope Glenaray interviewed by Cathy Macfie
Record Group — Box: 8
Identifier: H0043
Overview
This interview is divided into three parts. The first is a joint one in which Bill and Francis Watt tell of their first meeting, social life of the time, marriage and honeymoon. This followed by employment history through to becoming manager of Mount Hamilton and later a field officer based in Invercargill. In Bill’s interview he tells of his family history, early life and memories in Timaru and the shift to Matarua after the death of both his parents. He looks at his life here e.g. education,...
Dates:
2007