Date2011DescriptionAlister Matheson was a respected Tauranga Historian whose family arrived in Ōtūmoetai in the late 1860s. In 1999 he received the Tauranga Heritage Award from the Bay of Plenty branch committee of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust for his contributions to preserving and documenting Tauranga's history which included Ōtūmoetai and Maketū. Alister died in Tauranga, aged 85, on 11 January 2011. Text by Debbie McCauley. Photograph: Lee Switzer (2010). Please note: Originally uploaded to the Tauranga Memories website (2011-2020), into the Tauranga Local History basket, or focus group, by Tauranga City Libraries staff (Debbie McCauley), on January 21, 2013. Its original URL was: http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/en/tauranga_local_history/images/show/4974 and its original license was: Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial 3.0 New Zealand License. Sometimes images contributed to Tauranga Memories by the community were uploaded by a library staff member. If this has resulted in your photographs being mis-attributed to a staff member, please let us know so we can correct this.The original Tauranga Memories site also sometimes collected the following (blank where empty): First name: Alister Hugh Surname: Matheson Place of birth: New Zealand Date of birth: 2 August 1925 City: Tauranga, New Zealand Year: 2010 Photographer/CreatorSwitzer, Lee