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Mt Misery near Hokitika
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DescriptionI see this post card photo labelled Mt Misery, Hokitika on Trade Me. My reckoning is that this is the locale known as Mt Misery near Rimu a bit south of Seddon's Tce Road and not the Mt Misery beside Hokitika Gorge.
Any thoughts about this? I do remember visting the Mt Misery near Rimu 55 years or so ago and looking out over the terrace edge to the Hokitika River and seeing old sluicing claim scars. Are others familiar with the Mt Misery name being used for a spot near Rimu?
Read more about Mount Misery in Papers Past.. click on the External Link below.
Last pic: I've been out to the Mt Misery area today and recognised some views I hadn't seen since the mid 1960's. The terrace edge and sluice faces on the way to Mt Misery can still be looked at and out over from vantage points. Surrounding the Mt Misery highpoint regrowth native bush now largely obscures the view. Glimpses of Kokatahi and Kowhitirangi can be seen through the regrowth. Here is a pic of the trig on what I call Mt Misery (A modern map I've seen calls this area Pleasant Point)Map[1] External LinkMt Misery - Papers PastContributorGlenn Johnson
Any thoughts about this? I do remember visting the Mt Misery near Rimu 55 years or so ago and looking out over the terrace edge to the Hokitika River and seeing old sluicing claim scars. Are others familiar with the Mt Misery name being used for a spot near Rimu?
Read more about Mount Misery in Papers Past.. click on the External Link below.
Last pic: I've been out to the Mt Misery area today and recognised some views I hadn't seen since the mid 1960's. The terrace edge and sluice faces on the way to Mt Misery can still be looked at and out over from vantage points. Surrounding the Mt Misery highpoint regrowth native bush now largely obscures the view. Glimpses of Kokatahi and Kowhitirangi can be seen through the regrowth. Here is a pic of the trig on what I call Mt Misery (A modern map I've seen calls this area Pleasant Point)Map[1] External LinkMt Misery - Papers PastContributorGlenn Johnson
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Date Created4th January 2021CommentsTinker Brian
Gav Schist Yes definitely
Grandad lived in a hut near Mt Misery and Dad used to go deer shooting up to Mt Misery.
Gav Schist
Tinker Brian so it’s Seddon Tce Rimu?
Glenn Johnston
Papers Past records that Mt Misery is the upper end of Seddon Terrace and there are quite a few historic references to it even if the name didn't make the maps.
Glenn Johnston
Gav Schist Yes I reckon this Mt Misery is the Seddon Tce., Rimu area one.
Dianne Johnson
My grandparents lived at the top of Seddon Terrace, Owen and Mag Wildbore. We always knew the area as Mt Misery. Many happy holidays spent going after crawlies in the ponds up the track and always told to stick to the track so we didn’t go down a mine shaft. Great memories of staying with them, no electricity etc. and my Nana was a fabulous cook, goodness the food she turned out cooked on the wood stove still makes my mouth water.
Peter Armstrong
Maybe this is of some help Glenn, seems to indicate that the area you are describing was known as Overlook Hill because of the view and Mt Misery was in the Hokitika Gorge.
No photo description available.
Glenn Johnston
A 1904 newspaper article talks of of a new gold find below the "Brighton Bottom" which was worked to in the first rushes "at the upper end of Seddon's Terrace generally known as Mt Misery". BTW I have traversed the other Mt Misery near the Hoki Gorge too and that is partly what makes me think this postcard must the Mt Misery near Rimu.
Butch Cadigan
Use to play on Mt Misery track with my cousin Garry Madgwick, the family lived at the end of Sedona Tce, left hand side.
Lightning track may ring a bell with some folk
Glenn Johnston
Hi, Butch Cadigan, the old track that went to the "Rimu" Mt Misery carried on to Eel Creek and was once a County Council maintained foot track. Interesting to know you guys referred to it as the Lightning Track?
Butch Cadigan
yeah not sure where name came from Glenn.
Heather Newby
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspa.../WCT19031014.2.11
Papers Past | Newspapers | West Coast Times | 14 October 1903 | MOUNT MISERY.
PAPERSPAST.NATLIB.GOVT.NZ
Papers Past | Newspapers | West Coast Times | 14 October 1903 | MOUNT MISERY.
Papers Past | Newspapers | West Coast Times | 14 October 1903 | MOUNT MISERY.
Heather Newby
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Glenn Johnston " From Rimu the road turns to the left in the direction of Seddon's Terrace, and a run and at about three miles brought us to our destination.After passing Messrs Chapman and Stewart's sawmill, it passes through the bush and ends somewhat abruptly at a spot where, as if a curtain were raised, one is suddenly transported from the suburbs of Rimu up a bird's eye view of the Kokatahi district extending from Mr Lang's farm to the mountains. "(excerpt)
Glenn Johnston
Further to this I've been checking a modern legal access map and I see the area mentioned above before you get to Overlook Hill that I suspect is the "Mt Misery" I remember from the early 1960's is now named Pleasant Point. I think this is a bit of a give away and that they are likely the same place. What is it with Geographers etc. trying to dress up historic names of local significance. This area will always be Mt Misery to me even if it doesn't appear as such on maps just like the TR bank of the Hokitika River at the mouth will always be The Tip even if it is now signposted as Sunset Point etc.
Gav Schist Yes definitely
Grandad lived in a hut near Mt Misery and Dad used to go deer shooting up to Mt Misery.
Gav Schist
Tinker Brian so it’s Seddon Tce Rimu?
Glenn Johnston
Papers Past records that Mt Misery is the upper end of Seddon Terrace and there are quite a few historic references to it even if the name didn't make the maps.
Glenn Johnston
Gav Schist Yes I reckon this Mt Misery is the Seddon Tce., Rimu area one.
Dianne Johnson
My grandparents lived at the top of Seddon Terrace, Owen and Mag Wildbore. We always knew the area as Mt Misery. Many happy holidays spent going after crawlies in the ponds up the track and always told to stick to the track so we didn’t go down a mine shaft. Great memories of staying with them, no electricity etc. and my Nana was a fabulous cook, goodness the food she turned out cooked on the wood stove still makes my mouth water.
Peter Armstrong
Maybe this is of some help Glenn, seems to indicate that the area you are describing was known as Overlook Hill because of the view and Mt Misery was in the Hokitika Gorge.
No photo description available.
Glenn Johnston
A 1904 newspaper article talks of of a new gold find below the "Brighton Bottom" which was worked to in the first rushes "at the upper end of Seddon's Terrace generally known as Mt Misery". BTW I have traversed the other Mt Misery near the Hoki Gorge too and that is partly what makes me think this postcard must the Mt Misery near Rimu.
Butch Cadigan
Use to play on Mt Misery track with my cousin Garry Madgwick, the family lived at the end of Sedona Tce, left hand side.
Lightning track may ring a bell with some folk
Glenn Johnston
Hi, Butch Cadigan, the old track that went to the "Rimu" Mt Misery carried on to Eel Creek and was once a County Council maintained foot track. Interesting to know you guys referred to it as the Lightning Track?
Butch Cadigan
yeah not sure where name came from Glenn.
Heather Newby
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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspa.../WCT19031014.2.11
Papers Past | Newspapers | West Coast Times | 14 October 1903 | MOUNT MISERY.
PAPERSPAST.NATLIB.GOVT.NZ
Papers Past | Newspapers | West Coast Times | 14 October 1903 | MOUNT MISERY.
Papers Past | Newspapers | West Coast Times | 14 October 1903 | MOUNT MISERY.
Heather Newby
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Glenn Johnston " From Rimu the road turns to the left in the direction of Seddon's Terrace, and a run and at about three miles brought us to our destination.After passing Messrs Chapman and Stewart's sawmill, it passes through the bush and ends somewhat abruptly at a spot where, as if a curtain were raised, one is suddenly transported from the suburbs of Rimu up a bird's eye view of the Kokatahi district extending from Mr Lang's farm to the mountains. "(excerpt)
Glenn Johnston
Further to this I've been checking a modern legal access map and I see the area mentioned above before you get to Overlook Hill that I suspect is the "Mt Misery" I remember from the early 1960's is now named Pleasant Point. I think this is a bit of a give away and that they are likely the same place. What is it with Geographers etc. trying to dress up historic names of local significance. This area will always be Mt Misery to me even if it doesn't appear as such on maps just like the TR bank of the Hokitika River at the mouth will always be The Tip even if it is now signposted as Sunset Point etc.
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West Coast New Zealand History (8th Jan 2021). Mt Misery near Hokitika. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 17th Jan 2021 04:51, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/28833