AUDIO
Interview with George Hanson
- Date
- 14 Jul 1994
- By
- Hanson, George Frederick, 1910-1999
- Reference
- OHInt-0616/19
- Description
George Hanson born Dunedin 1910. Briefly details early background. Recalls helping Mervyn Valpy in a milk run at the age of 10 / 12 years, leaving school, getting full time work on Valpy's farm at the age of 14 years and describes hours, wages and huts used for accommodation. Talks briefly about work at Queenstown / Arrowtown and Nees before using savings to buy 2nd hand 4 cylinder Chev truck in 1929, setting up Hanson's Carrying business. Talks about Depression and its effect on business. Backgrounds buying Callaghan's farm at Abbotsford and move to Green Island. Other topics discussed include: Green Island Young Ladies club; Hobbs bus service and Buchanan's store; snowfall 1939; sewerage, Green Island; Quarrying; Cycling club; amalgamation of Green Island Borough Council with Dunedin City Council (1989) and Abbotsford slip.
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Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010094-010095
Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration.
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3369.
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
- Use/Reproduction
- Public use requires permission of copyright holders Copyright: Otago Settlers Museum and Alexander Turnbull Library
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- Greater Green Island oral history project
- Format
- 2 C60 cassette(s), 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration, Oral histories, Equipment used: Sony WM-D6C and two ECM-T140 lapel microphones - battery powered.
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Interview with George Hanson, printed abstract
Date: 14 Jul 1994
From: Greater Green Island oral history project
Reference: OHA-3369
Description: Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration.
Interview with George Hanson, tape two
Date: 14 Jul 1994
From: Greater Green Island oral history project
Reference: OHC-010095
Description: Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington Arrangement: Tape sequence - tape 2 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.
Interview with George Hanson, tape one
Date: 14 Jul 1994
From: Greater Green Island oral history project
Reference: OHC-010094
Description: Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington Arrangement: Tape sequence - tape 1 of 2 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.