The oldest daughter of Cardrona Valley sheep farmers in the 1950s, she did not question it - it was just part and parcel of what life was like back then. The daughter of Jack and Mollie Scurr, who farmed sheep at Spotts Creek, she was a rural girl from the beginning, and was probably destined to marry a rural boy, she said. "He was a musterer up at Hunter Valley Station in Hawea. Now 89, Mrs May said she loved the way the Gibbston valley had changed over the years. Now they have tidied it up in the Gibbston valley and I just love it the way it is.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 14, 2026 03:32 UTC