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Hotel Reefton. ca.1994-96.
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DescriptionDB filled these tanks, then decided the next day to remove them and replace them with kegs. Beer was tipped down the gutter. First time I've seen grown men cry. No one was allowed to fill any containers!PhotographerMaureen ThomsonDate of Photo1994-6.Map[1] ContributorMaureen Thomson
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Location (city or town)ReeftonOrganisation (eg business)Hotel Reefton
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CommentsTim Harrop
No great loss being DB
Tim Harrop steady
Murray Dixon
Geez health & safety inspectors & regional councils would be all over that today
Paul Meikle
It's alright , it's DB
Dave Maitland
Paul Meikle steady
Rory Paterson
Why did DB want them empty?
Dorothy Wills
Doesn’t make sense I can relate to those men it costs enough to buy a beer without it just being wasted like that
Kyle Webster
Because DB are bastards....and taking the piss out of the West Coast since 2001....since 1994.....
Lyn Whittle
Love the box of Chardon
Cole Vortex Megahowler McBride
Craig McBride
Grant Fussell
David Frank Lineham
Thor Manawatu
Simon Hargraves a day that will live in infamy
Frank O'Toole
That’s nucken futz!
Allan Lyall
Should of been a town party DB would of been famous
Lynnette Walford
Yes ,can't follow the reasoning here,even if they'd sold it half price.....
Ted McCreath
Lament over the departed 'Spirit'.
Suzi Kiely
Ouch
Colin Harman
Worked in that Pub for Peter and Sue Werner, was Westbrew beer then
Mari Walsh
I remember when the beer in the tanks of the club had to be replaced as it was going to go flat for some reason. We had free beer all night.
Ray De Courcy
Gutter the best place for it.
Ted McCreath
The next hym will be 'Let us gather by the river'.
Ted McCreath
Had always heard of the 'hard drinkers' on the Coast so I wasn't surprised first time passing through Reefton to see a bloke on a bike juggling a five gallon keg on his handle bars. What really made me grin though was a bloke in Greymouth with TWO 5 gallon kegs on a wheelbarrow on his way to get them filled
.In passing I asked him was he expecting a drought.No he said my cobber is coming over for a drink and I don't want to run out. PS I wonder why he wasn't using his car? Surely he hadn't lost his licence ha ha.
Dave Lyes
Ted McCreath they would have been 4½ gal.
John Flattery-donohoe
few drunk dogs n cats then
Heather Newby
Dad was the brewer from Monteiths after he left Dobson Mine and he said beer is actually quite cheap to make.. its the tax that makes it expensive.
Tim Harrop
No great loss being DB
Dave Maitland
Tim Harrop steady
Murray Dixon
Geez health & safety inspectors & regional councils would be all over that today
Paul Meikle
It's alright , it's DB
Dave Maitland
Paul Meikle steady
Rory Paterson
Why did DB want them empty?
· Reply · 9h
Dorothy Wills
Doesn’t make sense I can relate to those men it costs enough to buy a beer without it just being wasted like that
Kyle Webster
Because DB are bastards....and taking the piss out of the West Coast since 2001....since 1994.....
Lyn Whittle
Love the box of Chardon
=
Cole Vortex Megahowler McBride
Craig McBride
Grant Fussell
David Frank Lineham
Thor Manawatu
Simon Hargraves a day that will live in infamy
Frank O'Toole
That’s nucken futz!
Allan Lyall
Should of been a town party DB would of been famous
Lynnette Walford
Yes ,can't follow the reasoning here,even if they'd sold it half price.....
Ted McCreath
Lament over the departed 'Spirit'.
Suzi Kiely
Ouch
Colin Harman
Worked in that Pub for Peter and Sue Werner, was Westbrew beer then
Mari Walsh
I remember when the beer in the tanks of the club had to be replaced as it was going to go flat for some reason. We had free beer all night.
Ray De Courcy
Gutter the best place for it.
Ted McCreath
The next hym will be 'Let us gather by the river'.
Ted McCreath
Had always heard of the 'hard drinkers' on the Coast so I wasn't surprised first time passing through Reefton to see a bloke on a bike juggling a five gallon keg on his handle bars. What really made me grin though was a bloke in Greymouth with TWO 5 gallon kegs on a wheelbarrow on his way to get them filled
.In passing I asked him was he expecting a drought.No he said my cobber is coming over for a drink and I don't want to run out. PS I wonder why he wasn't using his car? Surely he hadn't lost his licence ha ha.
Trevor Keith Scott
Pouring BEER in the Gutter??? I would say there would be a lot of faceless people, all you could see would be their behinds while trying to RESCUE the BEER before it got away??
Martin Lightband
It is far better to of beered and lost,than to of never beered at all,,,, hic
Ken Jackson
Good old caŕton of Chardon
Julie Hassan
Crickey plsed it wasn't cider or I'd shed a tear or 2 myself
No great loss being DB
Tim Harrop steady
Murray Dixon
Geez health & safety inspectors & regional councils would be all over that today
Paul Meikle
It's alright , it's DB
Dave Maitland
Paul Meikle steady
Rory Paterson
Why did DB want them empty?
Dorothy Wills
Doesn’t make sense I can relate to those men it costs enough to buy a beer without it just being wasted like that
Kyle Webster
Because DB are bastards....and taking the piss out of the West Coast since 2001....since 1994.....
Lyn Whittle
Love the box of Chardon
Cole Vortex Megahowler McBride
Craig McBride
Grant Fussell
David Frank Lineham
Thor Manawatu
Simon Hargraves a day that will live in infamy
Frank O'Toole
That’s nucken futz!
Allan Lyall
Should of been a town party DB would of been famous
Lynnette Walford
Yes ,can't follow the reasoning here,even if they'd sold it half price.....
Ted McCreath
Lament over the departed 'Spirit'.
Suzi Kiely
Ouch
Colin Harman
Worked in that Pub for Peter and Sue Werner, was Westbrew beer then
Mari Walsh
I remember when the beer in the tanks of the club had to be replaced as it was going to go flat for some reason. We had free beer all night.
Ray De Courcy
Gutter the best place for it.
Ted McCreath
The next hym will be 'Let us gather by the river'.
Ted McCreath
Had always heard of the 'hard drinkers' on the Coast so I wasn't surprised first time passing through Reefton to see a bloke on a bike juggling a five gallon keg on his handle bars. What really made me grin though was a bloke in Greymouth with TWO 5 gallon kegs on a wheelbarrow on his way to get them filled
.In passing I asked him was he expecting a drought.No he said my cobber is coming over for a drink and I don't want to run out. PS I wonder why he wasn't using his car? Surely he hadn't lost his licence ha ha.
Dave Lyes
Ted McCreath they would have been 4½ gal.
John Flattery-donohoe
few drunk dogs n cats then
Heather Newby
Dad was the brewer from Monteiths after he left Dobson Mine and he said beer is actually quite cheap to make.. its the tax that makes it expensive.
Tim Harrop
No great loss being DB
Dave Maitland
Tim Harrop steady
Murray Dixon
Geez health & safety inspectors & regional councils would be all over that today
Paul Meikle
It's alright , it's DB
Dave Maitland
Paul Meikle steady
Rory Paterson
Why did DB want them empty?
· Reply · 9h
Dorothy Wills
Doesn’t make sense I can relate to those men it costs enough to buy a beer without it just being wasted like that
Kyle Webster
Because DB are bastards....and taking the piss out of the West Coast since 2001....since 1994.....
Lyn Whittle
Love the box of Chardon
=
Cole Vortex Megahowler McBride
Craig McBride
Grant Fussell
David Frank Lineham
Thor Manawatu
Simon Hargraves a day that will live in infamy
Frank O'Toole
That’s nucken futz!
Allan Lyall
Should of been a town party DB would of been famous
Lynnette Walford
Yes ,can't follow the reasoning here,even if they'd sold it half price.....
Ted McCreath
Lament over the departed 'Spirit'.
Suzi Kiely
Ouch
Colin Harman
Worked in that Pub for Peter and Sue Werner, was Westbrew beer then
Mari Walsh
I remember when the beer in the tanks of the club had to be replaced as it was going to go flat for some reason. We had free beer all night.
Ray De Courcy
Gutter the best place for it.
Ted McCreath
The next hym will be 'Let us gather by the river'.
Ted McCreath
Had always heard of the 'hard drinkers' on the Coast so I wasn't surprised first time passing through Reefton to see a bloke on a bike juggling a five gallon keg on his handle bars. What really made me grin though was a bloke in Greymouth with TWO 5 gallon kegs on a wheelbarrow on his way to get them filled
.In passing I asked him was he expecting a drought.No he said my cobber is coming over for a drink and I don't want to run out. PS I wonder why he wasn't using his car? Surely he hadn't lost his licence ha ha.
Trevor Keith Scott
Pouring BEER in the Gutter??? I would say there would be a lot of faceless people, all you could see would be their behinds while trying to RESCUE the BEER before it got away??
Martin Lightband
It is far better to of beered and lost,than to of never beered at all,,,, hic
Ken Jackson
Good old caŕton of Chardon
Julie Hassan
Crickey plsed it wasn't cider or I'd shed a tear or 2 myself
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