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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

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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

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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

MAYNARD, Colin George interviewed by Jenny Campbell

 Record Group — Box: 31
Identifier: H0412
Dates: 2019
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

McALISTER, John Francis interviewed by Nancy Burnett

 Record Group — Box: 20
Identifier: H0137
Overview This interview is a topic based interview about the 1984 flood and was recorded following the 25th anniversary of the flood. In this interview John talks of his work with Southland District Council as a water operator and prior to that as an electrical contractor. The subject of the interview is a flood and its effects on Otautau, Western Southland and his own work efforts during this time. John was working for the Wallace County Council at the time and looks at how they got the Water System...
Dates: 2009
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

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Federated Farmers of New Zealand. Women's Division 2
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Invercargill (N.Z.). City Council 2
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Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association. RSA 2
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