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A old map from a Shell petrol advert .ca.1948.
Patricia Herd Kirby
When I lived in weheka in the 50's my dad was the freight driver from Hoki to paringa and I travelled lots with him. Remember all those place names, there was 365 corners on the Franz/Fox hills, same number of days I a year. There was the odd corner he had to back up to get around. And a hours trip. Had to go around the forks hotel too. Winding road down to lake ianthe from pukekura. Was a lovely place to grow up in. Also knew all the people en-route.Date of Photo1948Map[1] ContributorBob Homewood
Sue Dando
Thanks Bob.
Kerrie Jenkins-Henry
Really interesting.
Fergus Burger
Furgs bush that's me
Bob Homewood
That is what I thought when I found it a lot of places and different names
Kerrie Jenkins-Henry
It's a good clear one too. Good to see some of the places I'd forgotten about, like Koiterangi. Even gold dredges marked. And a southern Wanganui River! Didn't know it was there.
Graham A Kyle
Great to see, and of course the road had "lost" a lot of the bends, and how far inland one travelled at times. And a lot of the names have changed since I was first there in 1964, thanks for posting this Bob.
Margaret Elaine Sadler
BOb I think there was a pub at Hendes?
Patricia Herd Kirby
When I lived in weheka in the 50's my dad was the freight driver from Hoki to paringa and I travelled lots with him. Remember all those place names, there was 365 corners on the franz/fox hills, same number of days I a year. There was the odd corner he had to back up to get around. And a hours trip. Had to go around the forks hotel too. Winding road down to lake ianthe from pukekura. Was a lovely place to grow up in. Also knew all the people en-route.
Peter Robertson
Went to Weheka School in 1947.The Post Office apparent changed Waiho and Weheka to identify with the Glaciers.Was all about tourism even then.A pity as the old folk always used the old names,in fact it was always called Weheka then
Peter Robertson
I didn't think fergusons bush was on the Ross side of the Mikonui.??? :)
Helen Leach-John Morel
we still have a old shell atlas of NZ
Patricia Herd Kirby
Fergusons bush is south of mikonui, north of pukekura. Maybe it is the river they have named in the wrong place, eg up the mountain end. Correct me if I am wrong.
Patricia Herd Kirby
no patricia the Mikonui is in the right place ,we also used to live very close to it at the area then called Donahues, (dont know if it still is,)....they have just put fergusons bush on the wrong side of it,leaving from Ross you go over the river then through fergusons bush. :)
Patricia Herd Kirby
Agreed, knew the mail was wrong. We used to stop at Fergusons in the freight. Used to know all the corners once upon a time. We love at weheka in the 50's and harihari 60's and 70's and the moved to the big city of reefton. Miss that part of the country and the people.
Bob Homewood
Any one know the History of how Donahues got it name please
Lynnette Beirne
Bob you would have memories of the standing and flying quarters on the mañanui straight
Lynnette Beirne
Bob Homewood.....all I know is we used to live across the road from Stewart Chapmans Mill on the cnr of Mitchels road. I think that road is called something else now as well. Mitchells used to farm at the sea end of the road.I think there was a little creek just befor the mill might of been Goat Creek ??? an old guy used to live in a hut up there. :)
Heather Newby
I saw a few of these maps in the old papers... very detailed.I still prefer maps to the GPS thingee
Heather Newby
Bob Homewood http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sooty/nzplacenames.html
Heather Newby
Bob Homewood Irish prospector Michael Donahue had a claim in Ross
Brian Hunter
i have seen this map before and i noticed fergusons bush is on the wrong side of the Mikonui. :) we used to live at Donahues opposite haines & sharps sawmill.
John Visser
Wonderful area, married a girl from Hari Hari 45 years ago
Doreen Thomson
I remember you well and your family Brings back lots of memories from those years and your Dad was an awesome man who always got the freight through to us
James Codyre
Born in Harihari in 1947 as the road north was out for days.Delivered in the small cottage up behind the NZR truck depot where Dad was Mechanic /Driver.
Mata Holliday
Good to see others calling Fox, Weheka! My Mum's old photos had Weheka on them. Couldn't find it when we visited the West Coast, then were told it was now Fox. Can anyone tell me when the name was changed?
Glenn Johnston
Interesting to see "Hendes" formerly Hendes Ferry as a distinct place name on that map. Various spelling variations of names different from today too!
Anne Boddy
Im from Harihair born and breed I hated the corners from Lake Ianthe to Hokitika I remember The Hendes and the Petersons well lovely familys
Neil Bolton
Debbie Richards Bolton a little town called Gibbs
Sue Vaukins
Hari Hari holds two memories for me. There was a deer we always stopped and feed and my dad had a friend, Russell Aldridge we use to visit. There was a small stuffed crocodile up on their toilet cistern which had to be removed before I would go in. Very scary for a six year old
Anne Boddy
Sue Vaukins I remember that too
Kaye'Mike Finch
Love South Westland. Married to a Hari Hari local. We lived there for awhile near the Poerua River at the base of Mt Hercules. Now have a house at Kaihinu not far from where my father in law was born 101 yrs ago.
Sue Vaukins
Hari Hari holds two memories for me. There was a deer we always stopped and feed and my dad had a friend, Russell Aldridge we use to visit. There was a small stuffed crocodile up on their toilet cistern which had to be removed before I would go in. Ver…
Anne Boddy
Sue Vaukins I remember that too
Kaye'Mike Finch
Love South Westland. Married to a Hari Hari local. We lived there for awhile near the Poerua River at the base of Mt Hercules. Now have a house at Kaihinu not far from where my father in law was born 101 yrs ago.
Lorraine Anderson
Kaye'Mike Finch lol Mike was next door neighbour… it is such a small world isn’t it… Mike run into my son in law Brad and they got talking…. About west coast…. Lol
Kaye'Mike Finch
Lorraine Anderson Hi it's been a long time since we all left HH but so many of us are still proud to call it home. Say hi to Brad for me. We have just left the NT and are now stuck in WA as or much not loved PM has changed the date we can return and do… See more
Lorraine Anderson
Kaye'Mike Finch All the best to you & yours for 2022. Stay safe & stay healthy… if you get to south Aussie let’s catch up
Arthur Dehn
Kaye'Mike Finch Do you remember the Glass family who lived i think south of the Poerua. Bridge, Charlie and Gordon ?
Kaye'Mike Finch
Arthur Dehn It was Darby n Ida who lived at the foot of Mt Hercules. One of there son's Noel lives in Christchurch. Stanley is in Invercargill and Bevin is in Hokitika. Donna there sister is in NI.
Scott Robertson
Kaye'Mike Finch Charlie's bach was just down from ours at KDV.
Bob Laing
There used to be in the 1950s a sawmill at Pukekura from memory. The mill was a fair way from the main road towards the sea
Clare Pierson
Bob Laing my father worked there. I thought that the mill was inland from Pukekura. I recall standing on a tiny bit of dry grass and watched Dad and another man (probably Bert Cowan) cut down a very tall tree with a band saw. The huts in which they liv… See more
Bob Laing
Clare Pierson
You could be correct about the mill location. I went there once as a 5-6 year old to see the Saw Doctor from Ross. A large bloke called Brownie.
Bob Laing
Clare Pierson
See my note to Kevin below. You are dead right
Clare Pierson
I was only 4,!!!
Kevin Oregan
The mill wasabout 100 yards behind the hotel some great photos in Frank Grahams book the Ferguson's of Westland.Kevin O'Regan
Bob Laing
Kevin Oregan
See my reply to Clare above
Bob Laing
Kevin Oregan
I am sure there was another saw mill south of Ross in the early 1950s.
How about Kakapoti if I have the spelling correct … See more
Kevin Oregan
Hi Bob,, my first arrival down South was about 59/60 and the mill is I said earlier. There was I believe an earlier mill down stream at kakapotahi before my time but have seen earlier docs. I'm a long way away from there now as been in PNG past 36 odd … See more
Bob Laing
Kevin Oregan
Hi Kevin, I am currently living in Port Hedland, WA.
I am a Coaster. You can take the boy out of the Coast but you cannot take the Coast out of the boy. I have heard of your name before. Probably the book. … See more
Kevin Oregan
Woolhouse a fair few of them on the coast Marshall a character that worked for Bill Taxon at Kumara another one at Rough river sawmill Ikamatua and yeah some inHari Hari but names elude me. Thanks for posts.
Trish Barclay
Hi Patricia I lived just up the hill from Audrey & Eddie with Reg &Rebecca Smith remember you as kids
Kevin Oregan
Fantastic old map. My first job in South Westland was for Burnetts motors building the big Wanganui bridge at Hari Hari. Hendes was the name of the original punt service across the river and our crane operator was the only one of the crew married so hi… See more
Chris Burles
Drove that road twice a week fir 9 months but never thought to count the corners Beautiful scenery I never got sick of it Colby Colbert
Emma Colbert where's Ruatap
Roberta Moore
Great map, even got Waitaha my old home.
Donald Mathias
Notice the spelling of wataroa
Dorothy Wills
A marvellous map to have the older generation will appreciate this
Wendy James
I grew up in Pukekura loved it moved away when I was 22 when saw mill closed down . I would love to move back Pukekura or Ross when I retire .
Tom Belton
Map shows Fergusons Bush being north of the Mikonui River which it isn't of course. Neat old map though.
Andy Bone
Would have been an adventure every trip ....
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Trish Barry Andrews
We used to travel down from Hoki to the Tatare to stay with Molly and Bill Condon and mum would get me to count the bridges, I guess to keep me quiet(er). Can't remember the answer, Baz.
Wendy James
An Kakapotahi beside waitaha river not on map that was between Waitaha valley an Pukekura
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