Interview with Ruth McKenzie

Ruth McKenzie recalls going to school in Huntly from Pukemiro; entertainment at Rotowaro; husband's job as butcher at Rotowaro; facilities in parents' house; dances; concerts; delivering meat; parents lived next to Pendletons; daily routine as child and newlywed; cleaning windows; Huntly on Friday night; roads too rough to go to Hamilton or Auckland; delivering meat to mines; cost of meat during Depression (1930s); making mince and sausages; freezers; swimming in creek after school; food available in Depression; having children; going to hall, pictures; visiting neighbours; reference to the Awas and the Tawhas.

Describes baking Christmas cakes; holiday with parents at Whitianga; the Druids; new arrivals in town; the Waahi Marae; concerts in the hall; present situation in Huntly; contact with local farmers; more on local Maori; boyfriends; hours of butchers shop.

Venue - Huntly

Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay

Venue - 76 Hakanoa Street, Huntly

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004400

Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 45 Minutes Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 731 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts.

Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.