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Date Created28th July 2020CommentsGerardine Anderson Such a shame what it’s like today!
Brian Wheatley That's an interesting building. A villa with a shop added on later?
Rob Clare Shaw So true Gerardine it was a great pub many great nights spent there
Helen Ruscoe The first time Chris and I went to the pub, not long after we came to Whataroa - Kevin Hannah was so drunk, he was lying on the floor and he told Chris and I to help ourselves and we could sort it out later. We were shocked and amused all in one go. Anyway somebody did come and sorted us out. I don't know why that has stuck in my head. Rob and Clare you were great neighbours too.
Helen Ruscoe
Helen Ruscoe I mostly loved our time in Whataroa and Sheena and Matt talk about it sometimes with good memories for them, It was a good town with good people in it.
Alan N Barb Cochrane Had great holidays at my Uncle Jack Walsh's farm love it happy times
Doug Joan Watson stayed there many times in the post office days when Dick Mann used to run the place
Kevin Voigt i had meals , showered , and few beers in that pub larry morean had it in my time in {quite a few]i was 17 1/2 great times drove for arnolds les alan old roy was still there then my1st tim to sth wetland and still love the place
Peter Dennehy Such a great place to visit, some great times their.
Tanya Mansell My grandparents (Bill and Pearl Freitas) ran the Whataroa pub between 1950 - 1955
Pauline Walsh Me to Barb enjoyed at uncle Jacks farm I rember that Shop an house to
Jean Keenan started school whataroa in 1940s.
Robin Morresey My parents Jack and Eileen had it late 30s early 40s.
Rhonda Adamson My Aunt an Uncle. Bruce & Noni Palmer managed it early 70s. I now have a Grandaughter farming there now ,Stacey an Dale Straight ,
Graham Porter Stayed there numerous times in the 1980s...Kevin and Jill Hannah were brilliant hosts,,always remember the friendly service and huge meals....
Arthur Dehn That was the hotel that my Dad horse Darkey ! Went into and into the bar , wandered around a bit walked out again to the front , staggered a bit and dropped down dead
Alwyn Couper James remembers majority of the people mentioned running the pub. Bruce and Noni Palmer used to get all the hotel milk from the Friend Farm, he remembers his mum and dad talking about Jack and Eileen, Dick Mann used to keep racing pigeons, Bill Freitas may have managed the mill at Giles ' and then went to Ross and maree Morean was at school about the same time as James.
Arthur Dehn Does any one know anything about the guy tha was shot in front of the Whataroa pub in the 40s??
Richard Howe
Wonderful photos. So sad that the pub is in decay, and going to ruin.
Bob Homewood
Richard Howe is the pub still going ?
Richard Howe
Bob Homewood Apparently not Bob. Not for some time it seems.
Richard Howe
Bob Homewood As i last saw it in 1993 Bob, i stayed there for three nights.
May be an image of road
Kylie Smiley Best
The memories of my nana and grandad Gordon and Christina Cameron from when I was a kid. We had a bach at Okarito and would stop at whataroa for cold drink at the pub.
Les Bryce
Signwriter didn't use a spell checker.
Richard Howe
Les Bryce I just noticed that Les.
Les Bryce
looks so wrong
Heather Newby
Les Bryce i think thats how they spelt it back in the day.. a bt like Wanganui? I may be wrong.
Reply3h
Richard Howe
Heather Newby Possibly Heather.
Rosie Christie
Heather Newby I think that is correct.
I remember my father telling me that many years ago.
Naireen Bass
Les Bryce didn't need to back in the day.
Alan N Barb Cochrane
A lot of memories there
Arthur Bass
Sat on the verandah with Kevin Hannah some mornings, green ginger wine and read the Press.
Jock Allen
Great times there with Jill and Kev Great Breakfasts as well THANKS for the Memories
Debbie Ansett
Kaye Burgess look at these pics. Just up the road from you.
Valda Ford
Whataroa without H???
Lynnette Tippett
My dad lived in Whataroa as a child about this time. Basil Green
John Van Pomeren
A couple of comments have mentioned the lack of "h" in the sign on the side of the pub. Can anyone explain this with any certainty? Was that the original way of spelling the town name or ........ ?
Kevin Oregan
Would think a mistake. Oldest photos or maps the river always had an h in it Whataroa. Kevin
Linda Hughes
I’ve always known it as Whataroa and I’m heading for eighty!
Heather Newby
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Admin
This is from the railways magazine.. 1928.."At Wataroa, also, new homes are to be seen."
Heather Newby
Author
Admin
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19401126.2.5 in 1940 it was still spelt Wataroa.
Laura Mills Detlaff
Admin
The named was changed in 1950: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/.../CHP19500731.2.103...
Papers Past | Newspapers | Press | 31 July 1950 | PLACE NAMES TO BE CHANGED
PAPERSPAST.NATLIB.GOVT.NZ
Papers Past | Newspapers | Press | 31 July 1950 | PLACE NAMES TO BE CHANGED
Papers Past | Newspapers | Press | 31 July 1950 | PLACE NAMES TO BE CHANGED
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Roger O'Regan
Laura Mills Detlaff
We learn something every day!
Helen Green
Same here Linda. X
Irene Williams
Where is Matainui? My late husband was born there.
Heather Newby
Matainui Creek Bridge Whataroa 7886
Graham Porter
I stayed there in the mid1980s Kevin and Jill Hannah were the owners ,great people,, Jill cooked huge home style meals , home made scones , my name will be in the visitors book many times when i stayed there on my trips to the coast.. i remember going on a jet boat trip to the White Heron colony run by the Arnold Brothers....and oh yes .,the rooms were spic & span ,a very homely place to stay..
Murray Bone
lovely place , lovely people , lived at the back of the pub in the early 70,s for a year.
Mary Phillips
Pauline from whence your dad came
Rangi Tinirau
Great times after the woody shield
Gavin Martin
Great times there as a kid during the whitebait season.
Ian Buchanan
And before
Brian Wheatley That's an interesting building. A villa with a shop added on later?
Rob Clare Shaw So true Gerardine it was a great pub many great nights spent there
Helen Ruscoe The first time Chris and I went to the pub, not long after we came to Whataroa - Kevin Hannah was so drunk, he was lying on the floor and he told Chris and I to help ourselves and we could sort it out later. We were shocked and amused all in one go. Anyway somebody did come and sorted us out. I don't know why that has stuck in my head. Rob and Clare you were great neighbours too.
Helen Ruscoe
Helen Ruscoe I mostly loved our time in Whataroa and Sheena and Matt talk about it sometimes with good memories for them, It was a good town with good people in it.
Alan N Barb Cochrane Had great holidays at my Uncle Jack Walsh's farm love it happy times
Doug Joan Watson stayed there many times in the post office days when Dick Mann used to run the place
Kevin Voigt i had meals , showered , and few beers in that pub larry morean had it in my time in {quite a few]i was 17 1/2 great times drove for arnolds les alan old roy was still there then my1st tim to sth wetland and still love the place
Peter Dennehy Such a great place to visit, some great times their.
Tanya Mansell My grandparents (Bill and Pearl Freitas) ran the Whataroa pub between 1950 - 1955
Pauline Walsh Me to Barb enjoyed at uncle Jacks farm I rember that Shop an house to
Jean Keenan started school whataroa in 1940s.
Robin Morresey My parents Jack and Eileen had it late 30s early 40s.
Rhonda Adamson My Aunt an Uncle. Bruce & Noni Palmer managed it early 70s. I now have a Grandaughter farming there now ,Stacey an Dale Straight ,
Graham Porter Stayed there numerous times in the 1980s...Kevin and Jill Hannah were brilliant hosts,,always remember the friendly service and huge meals....
Arthur Dehn That was the hotel that my Dad horse Darkey ! Went into and into the bar , wandered around a bit walked out again to the front , staggered a bit and dropped down dead
Alwyn Couper James remembers majority of the people mentioned running the pub. Bruce and Noni Palmer used to get all the hotel milk from the Friend Farm, he remembers his mum and dad talking about Jack and Eileen, Dick Mann used to keep racing pigeons, Bill Freitas may have managed the mill at Giles ' and then went to Ross and maree Morean was at school about the same time as James.
Arthur Dehn Does any one know anything about the guy tha was shot in front of the Whataroa pub in the 40s??
Richard Howe
Wonderful photos. So sad that the pub is in decay, and going to ruin.
Bob Homewood
Richard Howe is the pub still going ?
Richard Howe
Bob Homewood Apparently not Bob. Not for some time it seems.
Richard Howe
Bob Homewood As i last saw it in 1993 Bob, i stayed there for three nights.
May be an image of road
Kylie Smiley Best
The memories of my nana and grandad Gordon and Christina Cameron from when I was a kid. We had a bach at Okarito and would stop at whataroa for cold drink at the pub.
Les Bryce
Signwriter didn't use a spell checker.
Richard Howe
Les Bryce I just noticed that Les.
Les Bryce
looks so wrong
Heather Newby
Les Bryce i think thats how they spelt it back in the day.. a bt like Wanganui? I may be wrong.
Reply3h
Richard Howe
Heather Newby Possibly Heather.
Rosie Christie
Heather Newby I think that is correct.
I remember my father telling me that many years ago.
Naireen Bass
Les Bryce didn't need to back in the day.
Alan N Barb Cochrane
A lot of memories there
Arthur Bass
Sat on the verandah with Kevin Hannah some mornings, green ginger wine and read the Press.
Jock Allen
Great times there with Jill and Kev Great Breakfasts as well THANKS for the Memories
Debbie Ansett
Kaye Burgess look at these pics. Just up the road from you.
Valda Ford
Whataroa without H???
Lynnette Tippett
My dad lived in Whataroa as a child about this time. Basil Green
John Van Pomeren
A couple of comments have mentioned the lack of "h" in the sign on the side of the pub. Can anyone explain this with any certainty? Was that the original way of spelling the town name or ........ ?
Kevin Oregan
Would think a mistake. Oldest photos or maps the river always had an h in it Whataroa. Kevin
Linda Hughes
I’ve always known it as Whataroa and I’m heading for eighty!
Heather Newby
Author
Admin
This is from the railways magazine.. 1928.."At Wataroa, also, new homes are to be seen."
Heather Newby
Author
Admin
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19401126.2.5 in 1940 it was still spelt Wataroa.
Laura Mills Detlaff
Admin
The named was changed in 1950: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/.../CHP19500731.2.103...
Papers Past | Newspapers | Press | 31 July 1950 | PLACE NAMES TO BE CHANGED
PAPERSPAST.NATLIB.GOVT.NZ
Papers Past | Newspapers | Press | 31 July 1950 | PLACE NAMES TO BE CHANGED
Papers Past | Newspapers | Press | 31 July 1950 | PLACE NAMES TO BE CHANGED
ReplyRemove Preview1d
Roger O'Regan
Laura Mills Detlaff
We learn something every day!
Helen Green
Same here Linda. X
Irene Williams
Where is Matainui? My late husband was born there.
Heather Newby
Matainui Creek Bridge Whataroa 7886
Graham Porter
I stayed there in the mid1980s Kevin and Jill Hannah were the owners ,great people,, Jill cooked huge home style meals , home made scones , my name will be in the visitors book many times when i stayed there on my trips to the coast.. i remember going on a jet boat trip to the White Heron colony run by the Arnold Brothers....and oh yes .,the rooms were spic & span ,a very homely place to stay..
Murray Bone
lovely place , lovely people , lived at the back of the pub in the early 70,s for a year.
Mary Phillips
Pauline from whence your dad came
Rangi Tinirau
Great times after the woody shield
Gavin Martin
Great times there as a kid during the whitebait season.
Ian Buchanan
And before
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