Forrester, Morag
     Person 
  
           
             Interviewer for the Fiordland Museum Trust Oral History Project
           
         
     Found in 1 Collection or Record:
MATTHEWS, Anthony Phillip (Tony) interviewed by Morag Forrester
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      Identifier: H0584
    
Overview
             The younger son of a Canterbury dairy farmer, it was Tony's boyhood ambition to run his own sheep farm. School holidays in the early 1960s were spent on an uncle's sheep farm in Northern Southland where he learnt the basic skills of stock management such as drenching, lambing and shearing. A decade later Tony returned to Southland with wife, Judy, when they moved to their own 500-acre sheep and beef farm on one of the newly developed farm settlement blocks in the Te Anau Basin. This recording,...
          
      
          Dates: 
        2008
      
      
   