Community Contributed

Levin Memories

Kete Horowhenua2020-03-23T16:47:18+00:00
Interviews with local identities.

Levin Memories is the result of a germ of an idea that took root and grew.

The Friends of Horowhenua Libraries were aware of our local history that was remembered only in the minds of the older members of the community, but not recorded anywhere. In a discussion of possible oral history projects, the idea came up that perhaps the younger members of the community might be interested. The project really took off when the enthusiasm of Sarah Matheson (nee Smeaton) was harnessed to the Friend’s idea. It was the students in Sarah’s History class who interviewed the citizens whose memories are published here.

The support of Trust Bank Central made it possible to publish Levin Memories. Thank are also due to the senior members of the community who were willing to be interviewed and to lend their treasured photographs: to the students who asked the questions, recorded and transcribed the interviews, to Sarah Matheson, to Naomi Dement for editorial work on the layout, and to Yvonne Pridmore for supervising the whole project.

Rosalie Blake

District Librarian, Horowhenua District Libraries.

CONTENTS

PEOPLE INTERVIEWED:

Kenneth Scott Aitken
Jean Elizabeth Rolston
Herbert Donald Richards
Thomas Alfred Kerslake
Norris Mary Benning
Peter Stuart Mackenzie
Irene Dallenger
Malcolm Guy
Ann Smith
William Gordon Rendell
William John Crighton
Joy Harding
George Sue
Mary Hall
Brian McAllister