Sheep Farming
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
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
McKENZIE, Donald Blair interviewed by Ann McKenzie
Record Group — Box 1
Identifier: H0104
Overview
In this interview Donald recalls family history dating back to Great Grandparents and the history of their/his property at Greenbush, his own early life and family life and education. After leaving school he went to shearing school and took over the running of the family farm with his brother Robert. He tells of the various farming practices during this time. The family was eventually sold to his son Scott.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2012-2013
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
PATERSON, Hugh interviewed by Richard Savory
Record Group — Box 2
Identifier: H0078
Overview
Hugh talks of his family history, his siblings’ lives and choices. He talks in detail of farming practices, produce and his return to the farm after his time in World War 2 and the benefits of his attendance of a farming course at Lincoln. He describes his time at war in detail.
Dates:
2009
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.
To view full album see Digital Material link below.
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1945 - c.1949
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.
Click on Digital Materials link below to see all photographs.
Dates:
Majority of material found within c.1945 - c.1949
PICKNEY, Bernard Eyre Interviewed by Edith Ruddenklau
Record Group — Box 56
Identifier: H0502
Dates:
1994
PIRIE, Ewen Alexander interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen
Record Group — Box 26
Identifier: H0111
Overview
In this interview Ewen describes his family history in detail, dating back to his grandfather’s journey to NZ via goldmining in Australia and the establishing himself in farming in NZ. He refers to a book ‘One Hundred Years at Morton Mains’ which records his grandparents and their descendants. He discusses his relationship with his father and their religious beliefs. Ewen goes on to discuss tractors and their advancement in farming, deer stalking and culling, joining the army, friendships...
Dates:
2012
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