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Kokatahi Hotel and some derelict old shops *PHOTO ALBUM*
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DescriptionA couple of photos taken about 1982-84 by my late Mum Elaine Bartram. Kokatahi Hotel and some derelict old shops presumably around the same area although I wasn't there so can't say for sure.
PIC 2 courtesy Anthea Keenan: Frankpitts built store & house 1904 for groceries, drapery, ironmongery opposite Normans Hotel. Then enlarged for Post & Telegraph sold to Cooper & Webster (from Aubrey Cropps bk).. see pic when owned by Chas WoolhouseDate of Photo1982 - 84Map[1] Contributor Gordon William Bartram
PIC 2 courtesy Anthea Keenan: Frankpitts built store & house 1904 for groceries, drapery, ironmongery opposite Normans Hotel. Then enlarged for Post & Telegraph sold to Cooper & Webster (from Aubrey Cropps bk).. see pic when owned by Chas WoolhouseDate of Photo1982 - 84Map[1] Contributor Gordon William Bartram
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Location (city or town)KokatahiOrganisation (eg business)Kokatahi Hotel
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Date Created17th December 2020CommentsDavid Wood
Where?
Anita Ross
Kokatahi
Doreen Geoff Marshall
Many good memories of living here as a child.
My parents brought the store off Charlie Woolhouse in 1959
Susan Barlow
Is that the same site? Have the derelict shops been replaced by the hotel? Is that the hotel today?
Dean Hetherington
Susan Barlow the shops were across the street and slightly west of the pub .
Susan Barlow
Dean Hetherington Is the hotel still operating?
Dave Perry
Roger & Lucy Morrison owned the store and Roger also nearly owned the pub by his custom
Fallon King
Rick King Soraya King Ebonee Gerrard
Glor and Gary’s old hotel
Bloody good memories we had there.
Filming that movie Magik and Rose, playing in the church over the road, collecting eggs from the chickens and Ebonee tipping the massive coin jar over that sat on the pub counter
Trish Rennie
Daph and Ernie Powers wedding was a bloody good night and day here...we went right through the night...Gary mixed us up a great concoction to sober us up for breakfast...great memories and great people
JohnandKathleen Ranger
Great Memories used to go there a lot when staying with my relations.
Sally Carson
Kit and I and friends also had lots of fun with these fun and lovely couple
Kevin Bell
Lots of memories of great nights there.
Cathy Howat
My late uncle Graham Armstrong younger son of Dick and Jean Armstrong of Runanga was licensee in the mid seventies.
Greg Taylor
Brendon Reay-Mackey been their a few times
Donald Hibbs
the shops were used in a mainland cheese ad I think
Kerry Molloy
the immortal "kokatahi pub" under publican Johny Weastell.manys the rousing night we spent there with mine host!.Hockey player racehorse owner ranconteur and jokester bar none was John.
Dave Lyes
Kerry Molloy the late great Johny Westell, manager of the rugby team. Mad as a maggot. God I miss the likes of him.
Sandra Arnott
The actual pub is across road now the one at bottom!
Richard Leach
I was at kowhiterangi in the late 60s we had the tavern at the junction and the kokatahi hotel publican was Baldy Baldwin we drank at the pub as my neighbour had been banned from the Tavern. Baldy wasn’t a beer drinker As a result he had the worst beer on the coast but it was a great atmosphere
I worked on lands and survey farm Lake Arthur
Kerry Molloy
the catholic church was right next door.Fr Bill Middleton christened our son there with one of mr weastells Uncle HANZ jugs and Mr Weastell provided a very chilled 9gallon keg for the after match function at our home .memories precious memories
Jimmy Le Comte
Kerry Molloy Visited Fr. Bill Middleton this week at Nazareth House in Christchurch it is a retirement home. Even though we had not seem him for about 40yrs he still remembers us. We belonged to Anglican All Saints in Hokatika and Fr Bill was priest a… See More
Elizabeth Mehrtens
Remeber that Kerry,
Dave Ogle
Who remembers Baldy?
Joy Meyer
Dave Ogle yes I remember him. He came out of the carpark on a motorbike and got hit by a car. I don't remember what happened to him. I lived on the farm just over the creek from the domain.
PaulAnthony Teens
Dave Ogle short change publician
Stan Schroder
brought my fist bottels of beer at baldy for school picnic at lake manihapua
Patrick Kenny
Certainly was a great hotel and good food
Karen Annette Gardiner
Went there in the late 60s 70s.on a Thursday night.My mum and dad owned the pioneer hotel.Jack and Jean Gardiner.So because I was under age18 then, and was known in Hokitika .we went to kokatahi pub John Westall own it then. When pubs were closed on S… See More
Elizabeth Mehrtens
Remember hiding in there bed a few times when the cops did a raid if we didn,t have time to run out the back and jump the ditch, lol going out there Johnny paid me to play the piano every Saturday night and free drinks for Ian and I needless to say I become the guinea pig for all his new cocktails , loved it the meals were amazing .
Warner Nut Curry
Elizabeth Mehrtens that's the life Elizabeth, first class memories, thanks for sharing
Fiona Love
Elizabeth Mehrtens you were my music teacher and then I ended up playing there as well
· Reply · 19h
Cynthia McCaughan
Stayed there in the late 1970s with my then boyfriend whose relatives owned the pub. Roast dinner on Sunday night but every other meal was cheese toasties. Had to drive to Hoki just to buy fish and chips - something different from greasy toasties!
Mike Mora
Been there and seen the possum on the piano holding a rifle. AWSOME
Stuart McMillan
Bet there’s plenty of history there
Michael Doreen Ryan
We used to stay there when pony club advents were on the kids rode the horses & I would catch up with Bruce Dando & his Mates Great pub
Robert Wilson
baldy and the rugby days,1966, jum herring and george mason our ross coach,,after the game it was all on,,
Jeff Sherman
Went into Baldys with Gavin Wallace when I was 15, got the surprise of my life when he served us, we didn't push our luck and left after a 7oz!!
Dave Ogle
Jeff Sherman I would have been at least seventeen!
Dave Ogle
Jeff Sherman And your mother thought i led You astray!
Debra Jane McCleery
That was our local when we were farming that way
Jamie Connors
Would anyone know where I could source a copy of the Mainland Cheese Ad that was filmed with the store in the background? Thanks Helen Connors
Bob Laing
I stayed in the pub in the 1980s. Meals were good. The bed and bathrooms were tidy and clean.
My mother Lorna Laing (Kemp) as a young girl, mid 1930s, rode a pony into the bar one Saturday afternoon. Some one had bet the bar she could and he cleaned up. They even shouted the pony a beer
Kerry Molloy
Jimmy -Fr Bill -last time i saw him on active service was a funeral at Christ the King catholic church in greers Ilam .IIRC hed actually been promoted to monsignor -one rank below archbishop.he was another enormous character of whom i could tell a few tales -man of god ,entreprenur partowner of one of the finest gallopers to grace the westcoast circuit(BP Molloy can you name it and in his time in hoki he dabbled in standard breds too!
Andrea Summerfield
Bronwyn Hibbs haha I was just telling you about riding on our bikes to this shop from Kaniere when I was about 7 or
Mark Murrell
Back in late 60’s Off the school bus into the store over the road to have a 7 then back on bus after it had dropped off high schoolies further up. those were the days...
Sunny Day
Would have loved to gone there.Magic and mischief .Loving the stories
Ruth Priest-Johnson
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Some of my best times were had in this hotel, I lived behind the church for many years
Jesse James
my br0ther nevalie james work there farming in the 1960
Where?
Anita Ross
Kokatahi
Doreen Geoff Marshall
Many good memories of living here as a child.
My parents brought the store off Charlie Woolhouse in 1959
Susan Barlow
Is that the same site? Have the derelict shops been replaced by the hotel? Is that the hotel today?
Dean Hetherington
Susan Barlow the shops were across the street and slightly west of the pub .
Susan Barlow
Dean Hetherington Is the hotel still operating?
Dave Perry
Roger & Lucy Morrison owned the store and Roger also nearly owned the pub by his custom
Fallon King
Rick King Soraya King Ebonee Gerrard
Glor and Gary’s old hotel
Bloody good memories we had there.
Filming that movie Magik and Rose, playing in the church over the road, collecting eggs from the chickens and Ebonee tipping the massive coin jar over that sat on the pub counter
Trish Rennie
Daph and Ernie Powers wedding was a bloody good night and day here...we went right through the night...Gary mixed us up a great concoction to sober us up for breakfast...great memories and great people
JohnandKathleen Ranger
Great Memories used to go there a lot when staying with my relations.
Sally Carson
Kit and I and friends also had lots of fun with these fun and lovely couple
Kevin Bell
Lots of memories of great nights there.
Cathy Howat
My late uncle Graham Armstrong younger son of Dick and Jean Armstrong of Runanga was licensee in the mid seventies.
Greg Taylor
Brendon Reay-Mackey been their a few times
Donald Hibbs
the shops were used in a mainland cheese ad I think
Kerry Molloy
the immortal "kokatahi pub" under publican Johny Weastell.manys the rousing night we spent there with mine host!.Hockey player racehorse owner ranconteur and jokester bar none was John.
Dave Lyes
Kerry Molloy the late great Johny Westell, manager of the rugby team. Mad as a maggot. God I miss the likes of him.
Sandra Arnott
The actual pub is across road now the one at bottom!
Richard Leach
I was at kowhiterangi in the late 60s we had the tavern at the junction and the kokatahi hotel publican was Baldy Baldwin we drank at the pub as my neighbour had been banned from the Tavern. Baldy wasn’t a beer drinker As a result he had the worst beer on the coast but it was a great atmosphere
I worked on lands and survey farm Lake Arthur
Kerry Molloy
the catholic church was right next door.Fr Bill Middleton christened our son there with one of mr weastells Uncle HANZ jugs and Mr Weastell provided a very chilled 9gallon keg for the after match function at our home .memories precious memories
Jimmy Le Comte
Kerry Molloy Visited Fr. Bill Middleton this week at Nazareth House in Christchurch it is a retirement home. Even though we had not seem him for about 40yrs he still remembers us. We belonged to Anglican All Saints in Hokatika and Fr Bill was priest a… See More
Elizabeth Mehrtens
Remeber that Kerry,
Dave Ogle
Who remembers Baldy?
Joy Meyer
Dave Ogle yes I remember him. He came out of the carpark on a motorbike and got hit by a car. I don't remember what happened to him. I lived on the farm just over the creek from the domain.
PaulAnthony Teens
Dave Ogle short change publician
Stan Schroder
brought my fist bottels of beer at baldy for school picnic at lake manihapua
Patrick Kenny
Certainly was a great hotel and good food
Karen Annette Gardiner
Went there in the late 60s 70s.on a Thursday night.My mum and dad owned the pioneer hotel.Jack and Jean Gardiner.So because I was under age18 then, and was known in Hokitika .we went to kokatahi pub John Westall own it then. When pubs were closed on S… See More
Elizabeth Mehrtens
Remember hiding in there bed a few times when the cops did a raid if we didn,t have time to run out the back and jump the ditch, lol going out there Johnny paid me to play the piano every Saturday night and free drinks for Ian and I needless to say I become the guinea pig for all his new cocktails , loved it the meals were amazing .
Warner Nut Curry
Elizabeth Mehrtens that's the life Elizabeth, first class memories, thanks for sharing
Fiona Love
Elizabeth Mehrtens you were my music teacher and then I ended up playing there as well
· Reply · 19h
Cynthia McCaughan
Stayed there in the late 1970s with my then boyfriend whose relatives owned the pub. Roast dinner on Sunday night but every other meal was cheese toasties. Had to drive to Hoki just to buy fish and chips - something different from greasy toasties!
Mike Mora
Been there and seen the possum on the piano holding a rifle. AWSOME
Stuart McMillan
Bet there’s plenty of history there
Michael Doreen Ryan
We used to stay there when pony club advents were on the kids rode the horses & I would catch up with Bruce Dando & his Mates Great pub
Robert Wilson
baldy and the rugby days,1966, jum herring and george mason our ross coach,,after the game it was all on,,
Jeff Sherman
Went into Baldys with Gavin Wallace when I was 15, got the surprise of my life when he served us, we didn't push our luck and left after a 7oz!!
Dave Ogle
Jeff Sherman I would have been at least seventeen!
Dave Ogle
Jeff Sherman And your mother thought i led You astray!
Debra Jane McCleery
That was our local when we were farming that way
Jamie Connors
Would anyone know where I could source a copy of the Mainland Cheese Ad that was filmed with the store in the background? Thanks Helen Connors
Bob Laing
I stayed in the pub in the 1980s. Meals were good. The bed and bathrooms were tidy and clean.
My mother Lorna Laing (Kemp) as a young girl, mid 1930s, rode a pony into the bar one Saturday afternoon. Some one had bet the bar she could and he cleaned up. They even shouted the pony a beer
Kerry Molloy
Jimmy -Fr Bill -last time i saw him on active service was a funeral at Christ the King catholic church in greers Ilam .IIRC hed actually been promoted to monsignor -one rank below archbishop.he was another enormous character of whom i could tell a few tales -man of god ,entreprenur partowner of one of the finest gallopers to grace the westcoast circuit(BP Molloy can you name it and in his time in hoki he dabbled in standard breds too!
Andrea Summerfield
Bronwyn Hibbs haha I was just telling you about riding on our bikes to this shop from Kaniere when I was about 7 or
Mark Murrell
Back in late 60’s Off the school bus into the store over the road to have a 7 then back on bus after it had dropped off high schoolies further up. those were the days...
Sunny Day
Would have loved to gone there.Magic and mischief .Loving the stories
Ruth Priest-Johnson
badge icon
Some of my best times were had in this hotel, I lived behind the church for many years
Jesse James
my br0ther nevalie james work there farming in the 1960
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West Coast New Zealand History (18th Dec 2020). Kokatahi Hotel and some derelict old shops *PHOTO ALBUM*. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 1st Apr 2026 18:55, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/28779