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LinkHari Hari old storeCommentsThis is the old Hari Hari general store. ..hard to believe that once you could buy almost anything here. ..groceries. .clothing. ..material. ..hardware. .. — at Hari Hari, New Zealand, South Island.
Bill Johnsen Robin Rowley...
Martin Burt Closed then?
Deborah Baughan Went pass there two weeks ago.Melissa Little check this out.
David Lindsay Lol very closed Martin Burt!
Carrolyn Baker it was amazing they had everything even brought my dressing gown there when I had my last baby 36 yrs ago
Patricia Herd Kirby Oh, did lots of shopping there
David Lindsay Lol I lived here just over 40 years ago and yep you could get anything!
Carrolyn Baker I lived there 1975-1976
David Lindsay We left in 72
Mary Phillips I have a purchase from that store bought when I was 10 !!
Ngaire Ellis We used to call in on our way to the Whataroa Cattle sales for goods.
February 19 at 8:48pm · Like · 2
Rachel Anderson-Smith Thnx for sharing, I bought my share of 1 cent lollies there. Next door the Post Office where they withheld a Christmas parcel for my mum for months because it was addressed to her maiden name. Oh and can't forget the rocket!
David Lindsay Oh yeah the post office! There's also no longer the hall where we watched movies. ..or the pool. ..or the fish and chip shop. ..the tennis courts are still there. .but abandoned!
Rachel Anderson-Smith Goodness the hall is a loss, so many rousing debates held there not to mention Jazzercise classes. Really need to visit.
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Michelle Clarkson tennis courts were used but in the last wind our squash courts got destroyed. School going ahead still although roll has dropped significantly
Lisa Coppersmith Anne K I loved mooching around in there when staying with you!!
Heather Munro wasn't it a tearooms at some stage?
Cheryl Johnston I have still got some silk stockings I brought there!
Robert Wilson i liked the movies in the hall,,we got all our food in that shop,,
David Lindsay Yeah the movies were cool!
Roger Howell Maybe when the NZ Govt decided to house the Auckland homeless in Forest Service houses in Hari Hari may have changed the community spirit?
Melissa Little This was my granddads store. robin rowley will be 94 years young next month
Melissa Little's photo.
Sheryl Iraia How I remember that store.
Ian Debbie James Thx Melissa, great photo of Robin Rowley, he delivered bread & groceries door to door, no extra charge. Saw him late 2014, he travelled to HrHr for fire brigade reunion. Sharp as!!
Great to see him. Deb ( Minehan) James
Patricia Herd Kirby Hi Sheryl, they were good days. Melissa, say hi to Glenys for me, last saw her at a reunion at HH a few years ago. robin and dad were great friends, saw him in 99 at uncle pat funeral, we had a good chat.
Melissa Little Well say hallo to mum today as will see her
Melissa Little That photo was taken of granddad last year
Glenn Johnston I remember the store being open when I lived at the Forestry camp in Hari Hari 1978. We called it Wilson's store after the then owner.
Pam Englefield Used to do my shopping there. Monday bread was delivered to homes with a newsletter. That was 1966. Milk was delivered by Anna Lucas and one put out the milk billy. No bottles required. thick cream on top.
February 20 at 9:46am · Like
Angela Anderson shame it is like this now. Brian Aitken bought the bread and left it on your table. Now its a trip to Hokitika. The forestry was the good old day,s. Hard to belive it was ever there.
William George Wright Hi David, I missed a message age's ago now would have been before the school centennial, you lived next to the RSL in think
February 20 at 6:21pm · Like · 1
David Lindsay Yeah one house away Georgie wright?
Robert Wilson mrs christenson,,run the post shop there some where close,,she used to make us bank a couple of dollars out of our pay,,,when we left it came quite handy
Grant Muir A sad symbol of rural NZ today!
Carrol Barnes - Baker It was just around the corner from me they had eveything loved it
Grant Muir Carrol Barnes - Baker Yes. Lived there for 40 years myself. Sad to see!
Margi Adamson Remember it so well
John Visser Margi Adamson yep I shopped their and bought stuff you couldn’t find anyplace else
Margi Adamson John Visser true that only one.
Dennis Minehan I ran away from home at age 15 month and got as far as that store.Robin Rowley gave me a peice of licorice as his wife called home on the old phone ring bring ring.
Any relation to Alan at the Poerua?
Dennis Minehan Yes he is my elder bro
Lynn Mckenzie We lived in Harihari when Rowleys had it
Gillian Jones Oh wow! My 2 big memories of this general store are when I was run over at about 2 years old by Margaret Houston and at 15 yrs while learning to drive crashing through the front entrance with Shelly Bennetts car!!!
Leanne Cochrane Gillian Jones lol yes I remember that very well - I was in the back seat - we called in to get milk and you put your foot on the Excelerator instead of the break, you just about took out the petrol pump
Gillian Jones Haha I just about tagged you Leanne ! It was your turn for a lesson next. I remember Shelly yelling at me to put my foot on the break and me say "I am I am!" Blimmin automatics. Thank goodness for hand breaks. Colleen Blackburn told mum she had some underwear for her to wash as she was behind the counter when the post came flying through the window Megan Wilson Our mum sent me down to the shop to get a loaf of bread, I came hone with sanitary pads. Both items were displayed in brown paper bags. Lol.
Keith Finch Brought my first fishing rod and reel and first shot gun from Robin Rowley , as far as i was concerned they had every thing you could ever require
Margi Adamson Growing up it was Rowleys store
Margi Adamson Gee fix
Margi Adamson The post office next door.
Chris Aitken Margi Adamson Debbie was the post mistress.
Wayne Thornton Remember this when we stayed in harihari on Sunday nights
Robin Spillane Mag and Robin Rowley ran the store when we lived there in the early 1960,s
Jenny Adamson Robin Rowley is now in Christchurch
Anita Lorraine Barltrop I walked past it on the way home from school many days, or rode my bike, I remember so well, especially in summer. Caught the bus a lot in winter
Judith Johnston I hav red glass salt and pepper shakers I bought from there still in use ,they had lovely knic knacks and all sorts of things
Jeanne Thomson I lived next door to the shop when my husband was the sawmill manager and I worked in the office.
Jeanne Thomson I still wear a Retro dressing gown I bought from there
Anita Lorraine Barltrop
I used to go roller skating at the old tennis courts
Mary Connor
Judy Cardno
Philip Humphreys
I'm sure this is the store in pork pieLynn Mckenzie
Philip Humphreys it was the other shop, the tea rooms. By the road service buildingCharlie Blanchett
No I think it was the other one cheers
Lisa Young
Apparently I stole a chess set from the store when I was little and Mum (Esmae C Mcintosh) realised out in the car, marched me back in to Mrs Wilson and made me apologise...
Margaret Grant I shopped there it was my first store as a very young bride .
Tony Kirwan remember it... The school bus that picked us kids up from KDV used to stop outside there everyday....think Charlie Glass was the driver.but I was only 5 so....could be wrong..
Margi Adamson Sorry it was g fizz
Steve Jones Yes the old Wilson store remember it well, when I lived there working at H& P with ken Jones.
Carol Jones It was a thriving town in those days with 2 mills, forest service, ministry of works & farming. Lots of memories from my time living there in the 70's.
Greg Mait I remember going down there when the Aitken's owned it . to buy lollies before the movies at the old Hari Hari Hall.
Sheryl Iraia Remember shopping there in the 1972.
Joel Murdoch I have wondered often about that place. It is as if someone closed up one day years ago and simply never came back.
Kevin Voigt did a lot shopping here when driving fo arnolds
Marcia Martini When we lived in Hari Hari It was our buisy local grocery store in 1968 it was still owned by the kindly Mr Rowley. Glenis Berry worked behind the counter for awhile as did many local farmers daughters. Wilsons extended the haberdashery. P.O right next door ran by Debbie Christenson
Bill Johnsen Robin Rowley...
Martin Burt Closed then?
Deborah Baughan Went pass there two weeks ago.Melissa Little check this out.
David Lindsay Lol very closed Martin Burt!
Carrolyn Baker it was amazing they had everything even brought my dressing gown there when I had my last baby 36 yrs ago
Patricia Herd Kirby Oh, did lots of shopping there
David Lindsay Lol I lived here just over 40 years ago and yep you could get anything!
Carrolyn Baker I lived there 1975-1976
David Lindsay We left in 72
Mary Phillips I have a purchase from that store bought when I was 10 !!
Ngaire Ellis We used to call in on our way to the Whataroa Cattle sales for goods.
February 19 at 8:48pm · Like · 2
Rachel Anderson-Smith Thnx for sharing, I bought my share of 1 cent lollies there. Next door the Post Office where they withheld a Christmas parcel for my mum for months because it was addressed to her maiden name. Oh and can't forget the rocket!
David Lindsay Oh yeah the post office! There's also no longer the hall where we watched movies. ..or the pool. ..or the fish and chip shop. ..the tennis courts are still there. .but abandoned!
Rachel Anderson-Smith Goodness the hall is a loss, so many rousing debates held there not to mention Jazzercise classes. Really need to visit.
]=
Michelle Clarkson tennis courts were used but in the last wind our squash courts got destroyed. School going ahead still although roll has dropped significantly
Lisa Coppersmith Anne K I loved mooching around in there when staying with you!!
Heather Munro wasn't it a tearooms at some stage?
Cheryl Johnston I have still got some silk stockings I brought there!
Robert Wilson i liked the movies in the hall,,we got all our food in that shop,,
David Lindsay Yeah the movies were cool!
Roger Howell Maybe when the NZ Govt decided to house the Auckland homeless in Forest Service houses in Hari Hari may have changed the community spirit?
Melissa Little This was my granddads store. robin rowley will be 94 years young next month
Melissa Little's photo.
Sheryl Iraia How I remember that store.
Ian Debbie James Thx Melissa, great photo of Robin Rowley, he delivered bread & groceries door to door, no extra charge. Saw him late 2014, he travelled to HrHr for fire brigade reunion. Sharp as!!
Great to see him. Deb ( Minehan) James
Patricia Herd Kirby Hi Sheryl, they were good days. Melissa, say hi to Glenys for me, last saw her at a reunion at HH a few years ago. robin and dad were great friends, saw him in 99 at uncle pat funeral, we had a good chat.
Melissa Little Well say hallo to mum today as will see her
Melissa Little That photo was taken of granddad last year
Glenn Johnston I remember the store being open when I lived at the Forestry camp in Hari Hari 1978. We called it Wilson's store after the then owner.
Pam Englefield Used to do my shopping there. Monday bread was delivered to homes with a newsletter. That was 1966. Milk was delivered by Anna Lucas and one put out the milk billy. No bottles required. thick cream on top.
February 20 at 9:46am · Like
Angela Anderson shame it is like this now. Brian Aitken bought the bread and left it on your table. Now its a trip to Hokitika. The forestry was the good old day,s. Hard to belive it was ever there.
William George Wright Hi David, I missed a message age's ago now would have been before the school centennial, you lived next to the RSL in think
February 20 at 6:21pm · Like · 1
David Lindsay Yeah one house away Georgie wright?
Robert Wilson mrs christenson,,run the post shop there some where close,,she used to make us bank a couple of dollars out of our pay,,,when we left it came quite handy
Grant Muir A sad symbol of rural NZ today!
Carrol Barnes - Baker It was just around the corner from me they had eveything loved it
Grant Muir Carrol Barnes - Baker Yes. Lived there for 40 years myself. Sad to see!
Margi Adamson Remember it so well
John Visser Margi Adamson yep I shopped their and bought stuff you couldn’t find anyplace else
Margi Adamson John Visser true that only one.
Dennis Minehan I ran away from home at age 15 month and got as far as that store.Robin Rowley gave me a peice of licorice as his wife called home on the old phone ring bring ring.
Any relation to Alan at the Poerua?
Dennis Minehan Yes he is my elder bro
Lynn Mckenzie We lived in Harihari when Rowleys had it
Gillian Jones Oh wow! My 2 big memories of this general store are when I was run over at about 2 years old by Margaret Houston and at 15 yrs while learning to drive crashing through the front entrance with Shelly Bennetts car!!!
Leanne Cochrane Gillian Jones lol yes I remember that very well - I was in the back seat - we called in to get milk and you put your foot on the Excelerator instead of the break, you just about took out the petrol pump
Gillian Jones Haha I just about tagged you Leanne ! It was your turn for a lesson next. I remember Shelly yelling at me to put my foot on the break and me say "I am I am!" Blimmin automatics. Thank goodness for hand breaks. Colleen Blackburn told mum she had some underwear for her to wash as she was behind the counter when the post came flying through the window Megan Wilson Our mum sent me down to the shop to get a loaf of bread, I came hone with sanitary pads. Both items were displayed in brown paper bags. Lol.
Keith Finch Brought my first fishing rod and reel and first shot gun from Robin Rowley , as far as i was concerned they had every thing you could ever require
Margi Adamson Growing up it was Rowleys store
Margi Adamson Gee fix
Margi Adamson The post office next door.
Chris Aitken Margi Adamson Debbie was the post mistress.
Wayne Thornton Remember this when we stayed in harihari on Sunday nights
Robin Spillane Mag and Robin Rowley ran the store when we lived there in the early 1960,s
Jenny Adamson Robin Rowley is now in Christchurch
Anita Lorraine Barltrop I walked past it on the way home from school many days, or rode my bike, I remember so well, especially in summer. Caught the bus a lot in winter
Judith Johnston I hav red glass salt and pepper shakers I bought from there still in use ,they had lovely knic knacks and all sorts of things
Jeanne Thomson I lived next door to the shop when my husband was the sawmill manager and I worked in the office.
Jeanne Thomson I still wear a Retro dressing gown I bought from there
Anita Lorraine Barltrop
I used to go roller skating at the old tennis courts
Mary Connor
Judy Cardno
Philip Humphreys
I'm sure this is the store in pork pieLynn Mckenzie
Philip Humphreys it was the other shop, the tea rooms. By the road service buildingCharlie Blanchett
No I think it was the other one cheers
Lisa Young
Apparently I stole a chess set from the store when I was little and Mum (Esmae C Mcintosh) realised out in the car, marched me back in to Mrs Wilson and made me apologise...
Margaret Grant I shopped there it was my first store as a very young bride .
Tony Kirwan remember it... The school bus that picked us kids up from KDV used to stop outside there everyday....think Charlie Glass was the driver.but I was only 5 so....could be wrong..
Margi Adamson Sorry it was g fizz
Steve Jones Yes the old Wilson store remember it well, when I lived there working at H& P with ken Jones.
Carol Jones It was a thriving town in those days with 2 mills, forest service, ministry of works & farming. Lots of memories from my time living there in the 70's.
Greg Mait I remember going down there when the Aitken's owned it . to buy lollies before the movies at the old Hari Hari Hall.
Sheryl Iraia Remember shopping there in the 1972.
Joel Murdoch I have wondered often about that place. It is as if someone closed up one day years ago and simply never came back.
Kevin Voigt did a lot shopping here when driving fo arnolds
Marcia Martini When we lived in Hari Hari It was our buisy local grocery store in 1968 it was still owned by the kindly Mr Rowley. Glenis Berry worked behind the counter for awhile as did many local farmers daughters. Wilsons extended the haberdashery. P.O right next door ran by Debbie Christenson
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