Mataura (N.Z.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
MCLEOD, Reginald George Alexander interviewed by Gill Poplur
Record Group
Identifier: H0224
Overview
In this interview Reginald starts his story in the 1940s around Gore/Mataura looking at general living, farming practices and culture of the times. He talks of his interest in rugby and support of Pirates Rugby Club. Reginald also gives a detailed account of his working career as an electrician, becoming an electrical inspector and supporting the police 1988-1996.
Dates:
2014
PATTERSON, Edna Dorothy interviewed by Avis McDonald
Record Group
Identifier: H0322
Overview
Edna talks about family history and life when growing up. She talks about the vegetable garden, helping her father in the dairy factory where he was manager, games played and chores as a child. She describes her father’s work and the operation of the factory and cheese making. She details her mother’s role in the home and goes onto talk about her education until leaving school at 15. Her out of school activities included going to Balclutha to learn music and going to Dunedin to learn...
Dates:
2010
Street Maps for Invercagill, Bluff, Gore, Mataura and Riverton [5th Edition] , 1970
Item — Map-box 9: Series S0080
Identifier: S00800005
Dates:
1970
WILSON, Winifred May interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group
Identifier: H0500
Overview
In this interview, May talks about how she first got involved with Highland Dancing at the age of 10 through dancing with the Mataura Kilties Pipe Band. She was taught by Stella Glennie. May moved to Dunedin to be taught by William Kilgour. She took part in a dance tour of Central Otago. In the early 1920s, when men dominated the Highland dancing world, May won the first combined men’s and women’s over-18 championship. In 1924 she travelled to Scotland where she won both the Highland fling and...
Dates:
1994
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