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Matthews, Judith Dorothy (Judy)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1946 -

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

MATTHEWS, Judith Dorothy (Judy) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 55
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