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Interview with Sydney Muirhead

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Date

18 Aug-23 Oct 1992 - 18 Aug 1992 - 23 Oct 1992

By

Muirhead, Sydney Archibald, 1912-1994

Reference

OHInt-0081/06

Description

Syd Muirhead was born in Oamaru on 4 March 1912. Outlines his eighteen years with Darling and McDowell starting as office junior in 1930. Describes the firm's business, agencies and shipping. Talks about the staff including R.A. McDowell, Horace McDowell, Albert Robertson and Harry Robertson. Describes the wool appraisal scheme, the activities and locations of the big wool and grain stores in Oamaru, poultry farming, threshing machinery for harvesting grain and seed cleaning. Talks about being mobilised into war service and the firm appealing this. Recalls the end of the firm Darling and McDowell. Talks about managers of other stock firms in Oamaru including George Elvidge, George Stringer and B.B. Walton. Recalls other personalities including poet George Meek and Frank Cooney.

During part of the interview Syd Muirhead presents his tape and slide show of the North Otago Farmers Co-operative Association fire in 1966

Venue - Oamaru : 1992

Interviewer(s) - Joy Green

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005491; OHC-005492; OHC-005493

Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1094.

Photocopy of photograph of Syd Muirhead and others at New Zealand Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants Federation Conference in 1944; presentation of QSM in 1989

Additional description

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

Use/Reproduction

Restriction on public performance. Other public use requires the written permission of the copyright holder Copyright: held by Joy Green and in the event of her death, by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Copyright on Syd Muirhead's description of the North Otago Farmers Cooperative Association (NOFCA) fire remains with him.

Access restrictions

Partly restricted material

Part of

The Changing Role of Stock and Station Firms in North Otago

Format

3 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 3 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Illustration: Photocopy of photograph of Syd Muirhead and others at New Zealand Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants Federation Conference in 1944; presentation of QSM in 1989

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