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Interview with Bill Tuckey

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Date

5 Oct 1998 - 05 Oct 1998

By

Tuckey, James William Luke, 1925-; Ward, Kay, active 1998

Reference

OHInt-0464/17

Description

Bill Tuckey was born in Invercargill in 1925. Gives details of his family's background and his education. Describes working for McKerras and Hazlett, grocery and liquor merchants, and H and J Smith's department store. Discusses competition with Thomson and Beattie and Herbert Haynes. Describes the Lamson system of cylinders with cash and charge slips sucked through overhead pipes to the office to be actioned. Mentions his wife Nancy worked in the shop office. Gives details of his residential addresses, moving house, incidents at school, his mother and her cows. Talks about his interest in gardening, reading, rugby, softball, golf and family. Recalls businesses in the central business district during the early years of his working life.

Interviewer(s) - Kay Ward

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008620

Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s).

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract OHA-2694.

Bill Tuckey as a young man and in a contemporary photo

Additional description

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

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Public use may require the written permission of the copyright holder Copyright: Invercargill Public Library

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