ERNIE MATTHEWS – THE OLD MAN OF THE MOEY REMEMBERED
Sep 20, 2020
4 minutes
Story and photos by Ashley Lucas.
Our trip report into the Waitotara Valley in April’s issue brought back fond memories for Jenny Roy and her visit to Ernie Matthews’ property (Ernie’s Place) 60 years earlier.
She had gone in with friends and stayed at Ernie’s and back then it wasn’t an easy place to get to.Jenny went in an old truck that had difficulties in the mud on the Moeawatea Road and they stayed in the woolshed overnight.
Ernie had built the woolshed and used split Manuka for the gratings when he bought his first farm. It wasn’t large like some of the more recently built woolsheds but when
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