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Coral Webster hangs out the washing - Gordon talks with Ken Norton, outside the Greyhound Tavern.1980s.
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DescriptionCoral Webster hangs out the washing as her husband, Gordon (right) confers with friend Ken Norton, outside the Greyhound Tavern at Arahura.It is a warm friendly pub with generous hosts and jovial clientele, some of whom can polish of 8 or 9 jugs in an afternoon, no sweat!,while others enjoy baiting fellow drinkers by starting heated arguments, then sitting back singgering as the whole pub jumps about.During such debates, the swear box on the wall does well.In the 1982 flood, the miners, the deerhunters and the Maoris who fished the river for whitebait, stood in a metre of water at the bar drinking and firing at ducks swimming about.Date of Photo1980`sMap[1] ContributorHeather Newby
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Location (city or town)ArahuraPersonGordon WebsterKen NortonCoral WebsterOrganisation (eg business)Greyhound TavernEventCarol Webster hangs out the washing as her husband, Gordon talks with Ken Norton, outside the Greyhound Tavern at Arahura
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Date Created3rd November 2020CommentsGreg Mait
Oh for such days
Mark Galbraith
worked with ken in the railways
Liz N Steve Packer
I have memories as a kid of sitting in the car outside the pub with a bag of chips and a raspberry & coke when Mum and Dad were in there...and then later on when old enough (or maybe not legally haha) going there and singing with the locals from the Arahura Pa down the road. Great pub, great people and great memories.
Gary Reid
Liz N Steve Packer wouldn't it be great to turn the clock back
Chris Kelly
Its good if you got round the corner instead of going into the padack
Trish Barclay
Great people Coral & Boss spent many happy hours there
Marcanui Taura
the miners, the deerhunters and the maori
Robin Spillane
used to go there with Bill Tauwhere and my sister.
Phyllis Aberhart
I was always going to get a photo of it, then it was too late
Marie Ewens
Phyllis Aberhart .
Ruby Aberhart was a netball coach whom I had a lot to do with when I was the HB netball coach..Any relation ?
Phyllis Aberhart
Marie Ewens would been a relation of my ex, all the Aberhart's are related. Two brothers came out from Germany & helped to found Blenheim
Annie Swain
Late 1960s Vauxhall Cresta PC car - a good rugged old workhorse.
Di Henderson
I worked for Boss and Coral back around 85/86. Some very interesting debates at the bar with farmers and sawmills. Fantastic memories
Neroli Johnson
Annette Benfell. cool pic!
Catherine Brian Denton
Was that the hotel where a motorcyclist missed the corner...went through the front door,and left teeth marks in some of the woodwork ?
Barry Beaton
Stopped in one afternoon during duck shooting,had a couple of cold ones while Boss Hog was shooting ducks from the leaner through the window! I liked his style!
Julie Rasmussen
Both Boss and Coral were wonderful people to have known.
Brent David
Remember heading home one evening from Hokitika to Greymouth, saw something strange in the distance on the old bridge... turned out to be a couple of blokes from the Pa rolling an 18 gallon keg home from the pub. Not uncommon apparently...
Butch Cadigan
Spuds melodious tones with Gordy Thompson doing backing vocals, and Koegan keeping one eye on proceedings
Ron McCann
Boss Hog he was a good bugger
Terence Pugh
Chicken George and myself painting the kitchen and rooms out the back,Chicken goes out for a beer at 11 oclock,Boss chucks him back into the kitchen seconds later saying finish the painting and Ill drown you both in beer,he was true to his word
Bevan Pringle
Boss Hog great man and did his job always run a great pub
Bob Laing
TheCoast as she used to be
Greg Hine
Bob Laing As she should be
Kay Hall
That’d be right. Woman doing all the work while the men hang about!
Kyle Webster
Never forget the dog-leg at the Arahura bridge. I went on the Super-Value christmas jaunts back in the early 1990's one of the stops was at the Greyhound where I was served by a ten-year old (possiby a distant relative)
Missy Campbell Boss Hogg cooked the best fish n chips ever
Craig Carter My granddad Paddy used to take me there on friday and pool nights, slept on boss hogs couch out the back till home time, and that drive was a story on its own, i was 7 or 8,bloody good times,
Garry Wick Had many a sud there .
Gayleen Culling Lynette Sollis this is how I remember it cuz xx
David Carty Had a few beers in that pub!!!
Crystal Patrice Mason love reading these Hemi Mason
George Read Rititia Read Irene Cook Courtney Sargeant Himi Cook
Farrrrr out the memories
Sydney Simon Peter Robinson we would stop there a couple times on way back from west bays I remember a cow getting stuck on the rail way tracks on the bridge pretty merry when we left there lol
Reed Jarvis Loved drying clothes outside on the South Island
Phyllis Aberhart
Phyllis Aberhart Reed Jarvis I still do up north
Bernadette Hannah I went there in my flash dressing gown .Dad was going up for a drink . I said can I come ? . He said yes but if you're coming come now no time to change......so I did ! Sat on the barstool in my dressing gown . No one blinked and eye !!
Dave Steers
Dave Steers Stopped in as a but driver on misery trips they always looked after me. With non alcohol drinks & food.
Hemi Mason Yes. Drunk a lot of piss at the old greyhound.
Roger Howell Judge Ken Mason told some great stories about sessions at the Greyhound!Jim Galloway
"Boss Hog"
Vicki Piner
I remember heading off to Hokitika and having to navigate that corner
Warner Nut Curry
Oh what a beauty Heather the real Westcoast,
Phil Bargh
Bloody funny great story
Dennis Brown
We were there for a league tournament in the 80s.Called in to have a drink and something to eat. Young fella asked what we'd like and yelled out the back,
Hey Ma they won't fish and chips.
Best fish and chip and oysters we ever had. Also always remember the corner window in the bar hanging right on the main road at the time. Cars whooping past splashing puddles right up the window. Fantastic place
Lois Iacoppi
Only on the coast
Denise Bowen
Love this….. true Coast Style
Greg King
Photo taken on a rare occasion when there wasn’t constant rain driving down.
John Armstrong
?? Vauxhal next model after the PAX
Paul Thomas
Much simpler days when the govt took their tax and let us all get on with our lives unhindered.
Elizabeth Robinson
Wow that's old awesome photo
Hemi Mason
Yes lovely photo good memories
Iri Sinclair
Lots of memories. My many Tainui whanau uncles propping up the bar.
Phyllis Aberhart
A Place I was always going to call into on the way past & never did, much to my disappointment now
Neroli Johnson
my son's great grandparents.
It is Coral not Carole.
Lynne Kearns-Corbett
My brother was gutted when it burnt down.
Keith Douthett
Sounds like a good old West Coast pub. The genuine article!
Edited
Annette Benfell
That's our Mum
Di Henderson
Annette Benfell great lady
Marie Olson
Many a great night there,,,xx
Barry Beaton
Once saw Gordon at a table by the window with a twelve ounce beer and his shot gun,he knocked a couple of ducks out of the air, through the window. He certainly wasn't uncomfortable in his mimi,that's for sure!
Kay Stan McKenzie
I worked for Gordon when I was a young fella
Trevor Hutt
Got drunk in there a couple of times and more, was sad to see it go.
R
Kath Stopforth
My Grandfather, Bill Stopforth, drove into it and smashed up a wall and his car. He had failing eyesight and missed the corner!
Marie Bryant
Great memories.i used to take coral tonight's at greymouth and hokitika shows the operatic society put on she loved them.and my hubby was always behind the barbque cooking in the greyhound.loved the nights we had raising funds with auctions. With Durham havill.the auctioneer. All the locals contributing produce.one year hubby though pickled puha.should be on the menu.so outside filled a jar with dandelion leaves.put a lid on.it fetched an outrageous amount.then after auction was over the buyer.threw the contents on the baroque.ive many photos.and lotsa memories.
Kev Rasmussen
One hell of a fire,one of the coldest nights the road was frozen with all the water from fire hoses.
Colin Skates
First stop on way back to Grey after a saturday away game in Hoki. Billy Henderson always looked after us in those days
Arlene Hutcheon
I remember my Mum and Dad driving past on the way to Hoki to see my grandparents. I always thought that building was far too close to the road.
Chris Lousich
Another awesome west coast pub full of character and characters.
John Kenure
Wow haven't seen ken Norton since he. Lived at kaikoura
Colin Skates
First stop on way back to Grey after a saturday away game in Hoki. Billy Henderson always looked after us in those days
Lindsay Dowling
Colin Skates it was still the same when i was playing just a different publican
Colin Skates
Dead right Lindsay Dowling pity it wasn't still operating
Arlene Hutcheon
I remember my Mum and Dad driving past on the way to Hoki to see my grandparents. I always thought that building was far too close to the road.
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Alan Mitchell
Arlene Hutcheon The road was to close to the pub
Elizabeth Robinson
Alot of memories in there
PaulAnthony Teens
Boss Hog!!
Honey Mason
Aww Loved Coral And Boss Hogg He Made The Best Beer Batter
Oh for such days
Mark Galbraith
worked with ken in the railways
Liz N Steve Packer
I have memories as a kid of sitting in the car outside the pub with a bag of chips and a raspberry & coke when Mum and Dad were in there...and then later on when old enough (or maybe not legally haha) going there and singing with the locals from the Arahura Pa down the road. Great pub, great people and great memories.
Gary Reid
Liz N Steve Packer wouldn't it be great to turn the clock back
Chris Kelly
Its good if you got round the corner instead of going into the padack
Trish Barclay
Great people Coral & Boss spent many happy hours there
Marcanui Taura
the miners, the deerhunters and the maori
Robin Spillane
used to go there with Bill Tauwhere and my sister.
Phyllis Aberhart
I was always going to get a photo of it, then it was too late
Marie Ewens
Phyllis Aberhart .
Ruby Aberhart was a netball coach whom I had a lot to do with when I was the HB netball coach..Any relation ?
Phyllis Aberhart
Marie Ewens would been a relation of my ex, all the Aberhart's are related. Two brothers came out from Germany & helped to found Blenheim
Annie Swain
Late 1960s Vauxhall Cresta PC car - a good rugged old workhorse.
Di Henderson
I worked for Boss and Coral back around 85/86. Some very interesting debates at the bar with farmers and sawmills. Fantastic memories
Neroli Johnson
Annette Benfell. cool pic!
Catherine Brian Denton
Was that the hotel where a motorcyclist missed the corner...went through the front door,and left teeth marks in some of the woodwork ?
Barry Beaton
Stopped in one afternoon during duck shooting,had a couple of cold ones while Boss Hog was shooting ducks from the leaner through the window! I liked his style!
Julie Rasmussen
Both Boss and Coral were wonderful people to have known.
Brent David
Remember heading home one evening from Hokitika to Greymouth, saw something strange in the distance on the old bridge... turned out to be a couple of blokes from the Pa rolling an 18 gallon keg home from the pub. Not uncommon apparently...
Butch Cadigan
Spuds melodious tones with Gordy Thompson doing backing vocals, and Koegan keeping one eye on proceedings
Ron McCann
Boss Hog he was a good bugger
Terence Pugh
Chicken George and myself painting the kitchen and rooms out the back,Chicken goes out for a beer at 11 oclock,Boss chucks him back into the kitchen seconds later saying finish the painting and Ill drown you both in beer,he was true to his word
Bevan Pringle
Boss Hog great man and did his job always run a great pub
Bob Laing
TheCoast as she used to be
Greg Hine
Bob Laing As she should be
Kay Hall
That’d be right. Woman doing all the work while the men hang about!
Kyle Webster
Never forget the dog-leg at the Arahura bridge. I went on the Super-Value christmas jaunts back in the early 1990's one of the stops was at the Greyhound where I was served by a ten-year old (possiby a distant relative)
Missy Campbell Boss Hogg cooked the best fish n chips ever
Craig Carter My granddad Paddy used to take me there on friday and pool nights, slept on boss hogs couch out the back till home time, and that drive was a story on its own, i was 7 or 8,bloody good times,
Garry Wick Had many a sud there .
Gayleen Culling Lynette Sollis this is how I remember it cuz xx
David Carty Had a few beers in that pub!!!
Crystal Patrice Mason love reading these Hemi Mason
George Read Rititia Read Irene Cook Courtney Sargeant Himi Cook
Farrrrr out the memories
Sydney Simon Peter Robinson we would stop there a couple times on way back from west bays I remember a cow getting stuck on the rail way tracks on the bridge pretty merry when we left there lol
Reed Jarvis Loved drying clothes outside on the South Island
Phyllis Aberhart
Phyllis Aberhart Reed Jarvis I still do up north
Bernadette Hannah I went there in my flash dressing gown .Dad was going up for a drink . I said can I come ? . He said yes but if you're coming come now no time to change......so I did ! Sat on the barstool in my dressing gown . No one blinked and eye !!
Dave Steers
Dave Steers Stopped in as a but driver on misery trips they always looked after me. With non alcohol drinks & food.
Hemi Mason Yes. Drunk a lot of piss at the old greyhound.
Roger Howell Judge Ken Mason told some great stories about sessions at the Greyhound!Jim Galloway
"Boss Hog"
Vicki Piner
I remember heading off to Hokitika and having to navigate that corner
Warner Nut Curry
Oh what a beauty Heather the real Westcoast,
Phil Bargh
Bloody funny great story
Dennis Brown
We were there for a league tournament in the 80s.Called in to have a drink and something to eat. Young fella asked what we'd like and yelled out the back,
Hey Ma they won't fish and chips.
Best fish and chip and oysters we ever had. Also always remember the corner window in the bar hanging right on the main road at the time. Cars whooping past splashing puddles right up the window. Fantastic place
Lois Iacoppi
Only on the coast
Denise Bowen
Love this….. true Coast Style
Greg King
Photo taken on a rare occasion when there wasn’t constant rain driving down.
John Armstrong
?? Vauxhal next model after the PAX
Paul Thomas
Much simpler days when the govt took their tax and let us all get on with our lives unhindered.
Elizabeth Robinson
Wow that's old awesome photo
Hemi Mason
Yes lovely photo good memories
Iri Sinclair
Lots of memories. My many Tainui whanau uncles propping up the bar.
Phyllis Aberhart
A Place I was always going to call into on the way past & never did, much to my disappointment now
Neroli Johnson
my son's great grandparents.
It is Coral not Carole.
Lynne Kearns-Corbett
My brother was gutted when it burnt down.
Keith Douthett
Sounds like a good old West Coast pub. The genuine article!
Edited
Annette Benfell
That's our Mum
Di Henderson
Annette Benfell great lady
Marie Olson
Many a great night there,,,xx
Barry Beaton
Once saw Gordon at a table by the window with a twelve ounce beer and his shot gun,he knocked a couple of ducks out of the air, through the window. He certainly wasn't uncomfortable in his mimi,that's for sure!
Kay Stan McKenzie
I worked for Gordon when I was a young fella
Trevor Hutt
Got drunk in there a couple of times and more, was sad to see it go.
R
Kath Stopforth
My Grandfather, Bill Stopforth, drove into it and smashed up a wall and his car. He had failing eyesight and missed the corner!
Marie Bryant
Great memories.i used to take coral tonight's at greymouth and hokitika shows the operatic society put on she loved them.and my hubby was always behind the barbque cooking in the greyhound.loved the nights we had raising funds with auctions. With Durham havill.the auctioneer. All the locals contributing produce.one year hubby though pickled puha.should be on the menu.so outside filled a jar with dandelion leaves.put a lid on.it fetched an outrageous amount.then after auction was over the buyer.threw the contents on the baroque.ive many photos.and lotsa memories.
Kev Rasmussen
One hell of a fire,one of the coldest nights the road was frozen with all the water from fire hoses.
Colin Skates
First stop on way back to Grey after a saturday away game in Hoki. Billy Henderson always looked after us in those days
Arlene Hutcheon
I remember my Mum and Dad driving past on the way to Hoki to see my grandparents. I always thought that building was far too close to the road.
Chris Lousich
Another awesome west coast pub full of character and characters.
John Kenure
Wow haven't seen ken Norton since he. Lived at kaikoura
Colin Skates
First stop on way back to Grey after a saturday away game in Hoki. Billy Henderson always looked after us in those days
Lindsay Dowling
Colin Skates it was still the same when i was playing just a different publican
Colin Skates
Dead right Lindsay Dowling pity it wasn't still operating
Arlene Hutcheon
I remember my Mum and Dad driving past on the way to Hoki to see my grandparents. I always thought that building was far too close to the road.
9h
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Alan Mitchell
Arlene Hutcheon The road was to close to the pub
Elizabeth Robinson
Alot of memories in there
PaulAnthony Teens
Boss Hog!!
Honey Mason
Aww Loved Coral And Boss Hogg He Made The Best Beer Batter
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