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MASON, Barbara Jean interviewed by Virginia Henderson
Record Group
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
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Masonic Lodge Collection
Record Group
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
Found in:
Invercargill City Council Archives
Mataura Island School
Record Group
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
Found in:
Invercargill City Council Archives
Mataura School
Record Group
Identifier: A0303
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1882 - 1967
Found in:
Invercargill City Council Archives
MATHIESON, Ruth interviewed by Carolyn Deverson
Record Group
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
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 Council Archives
MATTHEWS, Judith Dorothy (Judy) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group
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
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
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
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