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DICKIE, Ronald Stevenson interviewed by Richard Savory

 Record Group — Box: 39
Identifier: H0378
Dates: 2018
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

HOWDEN, Violet May interviewed by Richard Savory

 Record Group — Box: 37
Identifier: H0361
Dates: 2018
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

MACKENZIE, Martha Cooper (Mattie) interviewed by Richard Savory

 Record Group — Box: 2
Identifier: H0128
Overview Mattie’s family lived at Hakataramea until getting a balloted farm at Beaumont around 1915. Beaumont was a thriving community until the railway closed. Grocery, butchery and bakery deliveries were once a week. Mattie describes the effects of her mother breaking her leg, her father’s ill health and her brother Alister’s war service which lead to his death in the Solomon Islands. Mattie took charge of the Post Office and Telephone Exchange. After her marriage they moved to her husband’s family...
Dates: 2009
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

PATERSON, Hugh interviewed by Richard Savory

 Record Group — Box: 2
Identifier: H0078
Overview Hugh talks of his family history, his siblings’ lives and choices. He talks in detail of farming practices, produce and his return to the farm after his time in World War 2 and the benefits of his attendance of a farming course at Lincoln. He describes his time at war in detail.
Dates: 2009
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

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