Interview with Mrs Alice Vera Cross

Broadcaster and Village Radio volunteer, James Hartstonge, founded the Tauranga District Museum Oral History Unit in 1988. The unit recorded 66 interviews in three years. This interview with Mrs Vera Cross (nee Gifford) is one of these. It was recorded in her home in Harvey Street, Tauranga. The length of the recording is 44:44 minutes.

Alice (Vera) was born in 1897 to William and Alice Gifford. She arrived in Tauranga in 1913 aged 15. Vera married William Cross in 1919. In 1925 she joined the Tauranga Croquet Club and was an active member for more than 40 years. She was made a life member in 1962.