Sheep Farming
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
BLATCH, Lewis Francis (Lew) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 50
Identifier: H0543
Overview
Lewis Blatch grew up on one of Te Anau's original pastoral runs, Lynwood Station. Along with his younger sister, Win, he is one of a dwindling group of people who can recall life in what was once a remote part of New Zealand, bordering the Fiordland National Park. In this interview, Lewis talks about the methods his father and brothers used on the Station's freehold pastures and the open run country before the government implemented its huge land development programme in the 1950s.
Dates:
2005
CHARTRES, Sheila Mary Jean interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 47
Identifier: H0525
Overview
In this interview Jean describes her early life in Waipukurau, meeting her husband Harold and moving to Manapouri Station. She talks about home life on the farm and raising a family. Jean was involved in setting up the first school at Mararoa. She goes on to describe life in the district, the people and social activities, the arrival of electric power, and farming. Harold and Jean moved to Te Anau in 1974 and she concludes the interview talking about the changes she has witnessed and the...
Dates:
2004
DENNY, Philip John (Phil) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 52
Identifier: H0557
Overview
Farm development was a major government policy in the 1950s and 1960s and the Te Anau Basin underwent the largest South Island scheme across four decades. Although a new kid on the Long Valley Block in 1968, Phil had previously gained stock management experience on a stud farm in Mid-Canterbury. Before that, he had worked on farms across Southland and in Canterbury as a shearer as well as a general hand. In this profile, Phil talks about some of that work experience and focuses on the...
Dates:
2005 - 2006
FRASER, Lovat Hugh interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 53
Identifier: H0563
Overview
A retired farmer, Lovat has experienced life on very different rural properties in the Te Anau Basin. As a child he and his brothers grew up amid the tussocks and sheep of a small pastoral run, The Gorge. During his early married life, he experienced farming in eastern Southland and at Mossburn until 1970 when he was one of the successful applicants of the ballot system for the government's new farm settlements in the Te Anau Basin. During this interview Lovat gives a personal account of the...
Dates:
2006
GALLAND, George Joseph William (Joe) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 47
Identifier: H0524
Overview
In this interview Joe talks about his early life in Otago, Waikouaiti and then Dunedin. On leaving school Joe took up shearing. Joe then recounts his experiences of WWII in some detail. Joe served in the air force and was prisoner of war from 1943 to the end of the war, after his plane was shot down in Egypt. On his return Joe married and took on a lease for Elmwood Station at The Key. Initially Jo grew fescue, which was exported to the US, and made more money than sheep. Joe goes on to...
Dates:
2003 - 2004
HAZLETT, William Nicholl (Bill) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 50
Identifier: H0547
Overview
Before the government undertook a major farm development programme in the Te Anau Basin between the 1950s and 1980s, the scattered large leasehold runs were in the hands of individuals/families. The Hazlet family of Invercargill took up the Burwood, Centre Hill and Mavora Runs in the 1920s but it wasn't until the estate became the responsibility of Bill's father (also named Bill) in the late 1940s that major developments were pioneered with the help of the newly introduced system of...
Dates:
2005
KING, Colin Maxwell interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 52
Identifier: H0558
Overview
As a young teenager, Colin left school to pursue his ambition to become a farmer. Starting out at Lynwood Station as a farmhand, he eventually worked on various large properties throughout the southern South Island; mustering, shearing, ploughing and learning first hand what farm work involved. By his mid-twenties, he was married with a young family and on his own small farm back home in Greenhills. The family moved to Castlerock and eventually to the Lillbum Valley where for more than...
Dates:
2005 - 2006
KIRKWOOD, Thomas Steadman (Tom) interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 52
Identifier: H0561
Overview
Forty years ago the Te Anau Basin underwent dramatic change as a result of some large government projects. The country's biggest farm development scheme had begun in the Te Anau Basin the previous decade, but its real effects on the landscape and community was not apparent until the 1960s and 1970s. As a farm manager and field officer for the Department of Lands & Survey during that time, Tom recalls what was involved in the development of the area he was appointed to oversee - the...
Dates:
2006
MACDONALD, Angus David interviewed by Morag Forrester
Record Group — Box 49
Identifier: H0540
Overview
In this interview David talks about his early life at The Plains Station at The Key and boarding at Waihi School and Christ's College. He then went on to work on the station. He describes the change in farm use from growing fescue to focussing on sheep and cattle. The Plains Station went on to be divided in 1969 into three runs for David and his two older brothers to farm. The section David took was called Davaar, which he continued to run until 2002, when he and his wife moved to a property at...
Dates:
2004
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
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