Mobile Unit. Hyde Reminiscences

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Year
1948
Reference
5855
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1948
Reference
5855
Media type
Audio
Series
Mobile Unit - NZ oral history, 1946-1948
Categories
Interviews (Sound recordings)
Sound recordings
Duration
00:29:01
Credits
RNZ Collection
MARDLING, Farnel, Speaker/Kaikōrero
MARDLING, Ezekiel, Speaker/Kaikōrero
MCBRIDE, J., Speaker/Kaikōrero
New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Mobile Recording Unit, Broadcaster

Mr Farnel Mardling, Ezekiel Mardling, and J. McBride of Hyde discuss various reminiscences, including Chinese miners, gold mining, waggoning, shoeing bullocks, blacksmithing. They also discuss the introduction of rabbits - there was a two pound fine for shooting them.

Other topics include mustering, and stories of various characters - including a local woman who had a hard life because "her hubby went on the booze".