Mobile Unit. Queenstown memories

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Year
1948
Reference
5724
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1948
Reference
5724
Media type
Audio
Series
Mobile Unit - NZ oral history, 1946-1948
Duration
00:44:34
Credits
RNZ Collection
New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Mobile Recording Unit

Mr Gardiner describes his father's arrival in Queenstown from Australia in 1868, his experiences, and discusses his own memories, including gold mining, the introduction of fish to Lake Wakatipu, fishing and poaching, scheelite mining, floods and fire. (old preservation copy on VC 59.)

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2 1064a Interview with Mr Gardiner, Queenstown pt 1 of 6
3 1065a [ditto] pt 2
4 1065b [ditto] pt 3