Interview with Mr Duff Maxwell

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 Mr Duff Maxwell is one of these. The initial recording is 27:57 minutes and continues onto a second recording that is 16:10 minutes. (These recordings may carry on from 148/19/23 and were recorded 2 February 1990).

Duff Heron Maxwell was born in Rahotu, Taranaki in July 1903 to Ebenezer and Pattie Maxwell. He came to Tauranga in 1949 to take over the guardianship of The Elms.