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Matthews, Anthony Phillip (Tony)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1944 -

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

MATTHEWS, Anthony Phillip (Tony) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 55
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