AUDIO
Interview with Oscar Lord
- Date
- 12 Oct 1983
- By
- Lord, George Oscar, 1903-1986
- Reference
- OHInt-0470/17
- Description
Oscar Lord was born in Auckland in 1903. Describes leaving the family farm at Taneatua and becoming a ganger on the railway line between Te Puke and Taneatua. Focuses on working on the gang. Gives details of living and working conditions on his next job on the Rotorua-Taupo railway line in 1928. Notes that 150 men were employed and the project stopped abruptly. Describes how the men were transferred to other jobs and he went to a road-building job near Opoutama. Recalls returning to the farm at Taneatua, hard work on the farm and conflict over the division of the land. Talks about his subsequent work reclaiming land at Whakatane, managing a dairy farm at Otakiri and working for his brother Frank at Rotorua.
Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford
Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s).
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2865.
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- Public use may require the written permission of the donor Copyright: Don Stafford
- Access restrictions
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- Part of
- Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford
- Format
- 1 C60 cassette(s), 1 transcript(s), 1 interview(s), Oral histories
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Interview with Oscar Lord, printed transcript
From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford
Reference: OHA-2865
Description: Quantity: 1 transcript(s).
Interview with Oscar Lord, tape one (side a)
Date: 12 Oct 1983
From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford
Reference: OHC-009049a
Description: Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).