Interview with Annie Gracie

Annie Gracie describes going to school in Huntly from Rotowaro; playing sport as child; Huntly school and town; various jobs around the Waikato; sister with appendicitis; the Ngaruawahia Regatta; Huntly doctors; going for walks as teenagers; dances; alcohol and local band; home entertainment; washing clothes; water for baths; home brew; meals and father's vegetable garden; drying clothes.

Recalls the Depression (1930s); the 1951 strike; getting married; husband's work in mine; his sickness and death; the Rotowaro Bowling Club; married life; electricity at Rotowaro; living in mine houses; water supply; benefit of coal ranges; trouble with house moving; rations in war (World War II); brother who worked at carbonisation works; using briquettes; the Country Women's Institute; local Maori; the football team; playing tricks on the Rotowaro engine driver.

Venue - Huntly

Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay

Venue - 66 Bailey Street, Huntly

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004403

Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.16 Hours and minutes Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 734 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts.

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

Alternative form available: Listening copies OHLCD-1451, OHLCD-1452

Digital copies of the recording and abstract are also available in the Library's Reading Room