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Mataura School
Record Group
Identifier: A0303
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1882 - 1967
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
MATHIESON, Ruth interviewed by Carolyn Deverson
Record Group — Box: 16
Identifier: H0304
Overview
In this interview Ruth Mathieson talks about her father Vic Stevens. Vic was the 13th of 14 children and was born in 1905. He attended Wild Bush, Riverton and Oraki Schools. When he left school he went to work on the family farm in Longwood and then he was employed by Parkinsons, an electrical installation company, in Invercargill. He worked with a gang getting houses "hooked up to the electric". Vic then mobved to the West Coast and played rugby for the Star Rugby Club and he met and married...
Dates:
2006
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
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
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Matthews Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0096
Overview
Processing Information This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for further details of collection content.A collection of colour photographs [scanned from the originals] taken by donor in the late 1960s, early 1970s of various Invercargill scenes including Queens Park gardens and animals, Southland Museum, water tower, and the 1971 Invercargill Centenary parade.Black and white wedding photograph [copy]...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1969 - 1971
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
MATTHEWS, Judith Dorothy (Judy) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box: 55
Identifier: H0583
Overview
Brought up on a farm in Canterbury in the 1950s and 60s, Judy was well-versed in the changing seasons of a rural lifestyle. So it was with some equanimity that not long after she married her farmer husband she was ready to leave the rolling midCanterbury plains for the more rigorous climate and terrain of Northern Southland followed by the remote, uncultivated soils of the Te Anau Basin. As new settlers of the Long Valley Block — part of the government's farm settlement scheme in the Basin — in...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
MATTHEWS, Mary Lilian interviewed by Gill Poplur
Record Group — Box: 14
Identifier: H0241
Overview
In this interview Mary recalls memories of growing up including: home, toys, her father’s radio. She talks about school, farming chores, and holidays. Mary has travelled both throughout NZ and the Far East.
Dates:
2015 - 2016
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
MATTHEWS, Russell John interviewed by Nancy Burnett
Record Group — Box: 15
Identifier: H0294
Overview
This interview is part of the Gorge Road Collection. In this interview Russell describes the huge changes in the landscape in the Waituna area. From the 1950s land around the Waituna Lagoon was drained and cleared of moss, manuka, flax and scrub and converted into farmland. Russell describes the machinary used and the processes involved in the conversion process and the support provided by central government.
Dates:
2016
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Maureen and Aaron Fox Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0645
Overview
Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.Material relating to the teaching career of Maureen Fox M.B.E. who taught at Southland Girls' High, Southland Technical College, James Hargest High School, and was Principal at Kingswell High School. Includes material from her time with the Historic Places Trust, including copies of cemetery records from Balfour,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1879 - c.2009
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Maureen Fox M.B.E Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0634
Overview
Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.Material relating to the teaching career of Maureen Fox M.B.E. who taught Shorthand Typing and Commercial Practice at Southland Girls' High, Southland Technical College and James Hargest High School. Joined Kingswell High School in 1979 as Senior Mistress, promoted to Deputy Principal then Principal. Also involved with...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1970 - c.2010
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
Maurice Thompson Collection
Record Group
Identifier: A0083
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1860 - 1975
Found in:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives
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