Interview with Mrs Leah Wineera

Leah Wineera was interviewed by Margaret Baylis on behalf of Margaret's brother Murray Patterson who was researching material for a book about his his great-grandparents and settlers of Lakeside, Sedgemere and Taumutu Districts near Lake Ellesmere. Margaret Baylis talks about the research and asks Leah Wineera about her memories of people and places of the Districts.

Publication - Interview by sister of Murray Patterson, as preparation for his book 'In sight of the lake & sound of the sea : a narrative of the life and times of my great grandparents, James and Agnes McIlaith, David and Ann Marshall, John and Margaret Patterson, and the other pioneer settlers of the lakeside Sedgemere Taumutu Districts, to whom the present generation owe so much.' Christchurch, M. Patterson, 1998.

Interviewer(s) - Margaret Baylis

Accompanying material - 2 photos, one marriage notice in the Ellersmere Guardian.

Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 folder(s) - accompanying materials. 1 interview(s).

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other OHA-2696 (folder).

2 photos: One of Margaret Baylis and Leah Wineera, taken at 19a South Belt, Lincoln, 8152 on the 18 June 1981. One of Auntie Leah Wineera of Porirua beside Auntie Magie (?) nee Taiaroa of Wanganui, at the opening of the dining room at Rehua Marae, Christchurch.

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