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Cattle Farming

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Norman A. McLaren Farm Diaries

 Record Group
Identifier: A0657
Overview Processing Note: This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives staff for details of collection content.

21 Farm Diaries for Mr. Norman Alexander McLaren's farms at Otahu (1886 - 1892) and 'Redfern' at Otautau (1894 - 1907) [nb. note on 1892 diary that 1893 is missing as this was the year he left Otahu].
Dates: Majority of material found within 1886 - 1907
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives / Norman A. McLaren Farm Diaries

Orepuki Young Farmers Club

 Record Group
Identifier: A0703
Processing Information This collection is awaiting arrangement and description. Please contact Archives Staff for details of collection content.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1940 - 1988
Found in: Invercargill City Libraries and Archives / Orepuki Young Farmers Club

Photograph album of Glenaray Station

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH00430006_001
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1945 - c.1949
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

Photograph album of Glenaray Station, bulk: c.1945 - c.1949

 Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00430006
Overview Photograph album of Glenaray Station buildings, people, animals, farmland, and high country.

To view full album see Digital Material link below.
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1945 - c.1949
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / H0043, WATT, William Patrick (Bill) and Francis Hope Glenaray interviewed by Cathy Macfie

Photographs of Glenaray Station

 Digital Image
Identifier: DH00430007
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1945 - c.1949
Found in: Southland Oral History Project

Photographs of Glenaray Station [8], bulk: c.1945 - c.1949

 Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00430007
Overview Photographs of Glenaray Station, people, animals, farmland and high country. Loose photos, most likely from the larger photograph album [item H00430006].

Click on Digital Materials link below to see all photographs.
Dates: Majority of material found within c.1945 - c.1949
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / H0043, WATT, William Patrick (Bill) and Francis Hope Glenaray interviewed by Cathy Macfie

STROUD, Winifred Elsie (Win) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 50
Identifier: H0546
Overview Win is among the few remaining people who grew up in the Te Anau Basin when it was still considered remote and inaccessible with land covered in tussock and scrub that was only useful for grazing stock. As the youngest child of Henry F. Blatch, runholder of Lynwood Station (originally gazetted as the Te Anau Lake Run 301B) between 1906 and 1951, Win recalls a childhood of walks and picnics in the Basin as well as some of the events that dramatically changed the lives of her immediate family and...
Dates: 2005
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / STROUD, Winifred Elsie (Win) interviewed by Morag Forrester

YATES, Robert John (Bob) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 49
Identifier: H0539
Overview In this interview Bob describes growing up in Christchurch and Kaikoura. After a brief stint in the NZRAF Bob went into farming and in 1960 he and his young family moved to Te Anau where he took on a role as a farm manager for Lands and Survey. In his first position he ran the Kakapo Block. After a stint in Canterbury, Bob and his family returned to Te Anau, this time as a field officer on the Takatimu Block. Bob talks about the development of farming in the Te Anau Basin, the ballot system and...
Dates: 2004
Found in: Southland Oral History Project / YATES, Robert John (Bob) interviewed by Morag Forrester

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