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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
REID, Roy Watson interviewed by Jenny Campbell
Record Group — Box: 39
Identifier: H0107
Overview
In this interview Roy tells of his family history dating back to 1888, his home, education, childhood activities on the farm e.g., rabbiting, catching eels. He details farming sheep and fescue. He looks at the history of and changes to Mossburn, social activities and how his parents met.
Dates:
2013
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
