An interview with Kevin O’Conner. Part of the Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust 2009 Oral History Series.
Kevin O’Connor. Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Scholar, teacher, scientist, professor. Kevin was a key leader in having the waste-water outfall removed from the estuary and piped to the ocean. Director of the Tussock Grasslands & Mountain Lands Institute, resident of Sumner. A board member of the Christchurch Estuary Association and also The Estuary Trust. He was born in 1926 and passed away in 2016.