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MARSHALL, John Bury interviewed by Denise Sanderson

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Identifier: H0439
Dates: 2020

MARSHALL, Robert Noel interviewed by Oweena Frew

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Identifier: H0110
Overview Robert shares his family history, living at the Invercargill Race Course where his father was the caretaker for 41 years. Robert covers his education, employment record, and years in the war where he was in Italy, Egypt and Casino; on returning to NZ he married, had a family, set up business in Gore with Fred Harvey for 20 years and purchased 200 acres of land. He introduced plumbing to business and were the first to produce long run spouting in NZ. He also gives a description of making metal...
Dates: 2012

MASON, Barbara Jean interviewed by Virginia Henderson

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Identifier: H0118
Overview This interview was recorded as part of the Wendon Valley Research Project. In this interview Barbara talks of her family history dating back to her grandparents, the purchase of the family farm at Wyndham Valley and the history of the family here; and of her marriage to Bill Mason and move to Otara where they took over Bill’s uncles farm. She describes what it was like for her to leave Wyndham Valley to go to Otara. Barbara also recalls her education at Wyndham Valley School and a little local...
Dates: 2012

Masonic Lodge Collection

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Identifier: A0619
Overview Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.It contains records from the Masonic Hall on Forth Street, Invercargill, which ceased operation as a Masonic Hall in 2019. Records are from a number of lodges and lodge organisations and includes minutes, financial records, histories, photographs, paraphernalia, and various Masonic records (installation programmes,...
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1870 - 2019

Mataura Island School

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Identifier: A0304
Overview Processing Note This collection has been partially arranged and described. A small amount of unprocessed material remains in Accession ICA01.004. Contact Archives staff for details.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1890 - 1996

Mataura School

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Identifier: A0303
Dates: Majority of material found within 1882 - 1967

MATHIESON, Ruth interviewed by Carolyn Deverson

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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

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

Matthews Collection

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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

MATTHEWS, Judith Dorothy (Judy) interviewed by Morag Forrester

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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

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