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). Photographer/CreatorSwitzer, Lee