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Stillwater hotel which burnt down and was replaced by the Kokiri one.1895-1905.
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DescriptionStillwater hotel which burnt down and was replaced by the Kokiri one.
Map[1] ContributorMaye Dunn
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CommentsMary Moffitt Our general store is shown behind the right end of the hotel.
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Joan Mclean
Joan Mclean This is the original Stillwater Hotel. When it burnt down in the Kokiri Hotel was moved to the present site in Stillwater.
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Mary Moffitt
Mary Moffitt Joan Mclean was the fire in the early forties? I was livid because I slept through the whole thing.
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Joan Mclean
Joan Mclean After the war I think.
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Mary Moffitt
Mary Moffitt Joan Mclean Thank you
Mary Moffitt
Our general store is shown behind the right end of the hotel.
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Joan Mclean
This is the original Stillwater Hotel. When it burnt down in the Kokiri Hotel was moved to the present site in Stillwater.
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Mary Moffitt
Joan Mclean was the fire in the early forties? I was livid because I slept through the whole thing.
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Joan Mclean
After the war I think.
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Trevor Molloy
my grandfather William Hartigan worked for the railways at Kokiri , the railway house that the family lived in is still there , it was shifted back from the railway line and converted into a shearing shed .
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Geoffrey Bell
Trevor Molloy. Your grandfather, William Hartigan, standing outside his house at Kokiri, close to the railway line.
May be an image of 1 person
Trevor Molloy
unfortunately I was only two years old when he died , he retired and then returned to work because of the labour shortage during the war ,Mum always said it was a shame that he never got to enjoy retirement as he was still working at the time of death … See More
Bryce Smith
I remember all you boys. Thanks for the memories.
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Joan Mclean
The Buucklys were the proprietors of the Hotel when it burnt down. Marie Buckly was in a photo posted earlier.
Mary Moffitt
Joan Mclean
Dave Wallace had it before the Buckleys. Their son Dave Wallace Jnr then had the two-roomed cottage between the school and the road at the top of the hill (Later the home of Bernie Galligan.) Dad lived at this hotel before he was married and then Mum and Dad stayed on till he built rooms onto the store. Mum said Mrs Wallace marked their marriage on her calendar!!! Cliff had bought the store from Cocky Richardson and moved it from where the hall was built. Previously he had a shed across the road for stores. Fruit and vegetables to start with.
Please correct if you remember differently.
Joan Mclean
There were other owners before the Buckleys
Mary Moffitt
Joan Mclean I don't remember them. I think your memory is better than mine.
Mary Moffitt
This is the Stillwater Hotel which was moved from Kokiri in the late Forties by T Croft (source - this site. Information contributed by Marilyn Smithem) It replaced the one at the head of this post, but was placed on a site opposite the Railway Station, and not on the site of the previous one at the road junction with Arnold Road. It has been extended since. The Arnold Road one is the hotel described in old records as Junction Hotel, Stillwater.
No photo description available.
Mary Moffitt
Someone will possibly have a photo of the Kokiri Hotel when it was located there. Think that it was in a much reduced size in that settlement.
Paul Quinlivan
Would anyone know if this is the same hotel as mentioned in the Nov 1920 Public Notice? I’m assuming the Mrs Hill referred to is Mrs Catherine Anastatia Hill.
May be an image of text that says 'GRA_19201120 PDF ××¢¢¢×× ×××××× nd Irene Castle in- IBLE OND." PUBLIO NOTICES, MIDLANDR RAILWAY HOTEL. .KOKIRI. HILL, PROPRIETOR. MR ARTHUR HILL, late of Barry- Town wishes to notiły. the General Publie that he has purchased the above well -known Hotel and hopes that by giving every attention to solicit ฉ share of their Patronage. .Only the. best of Liquors stocked, and True to Label, The domestic arrangements are un- der the personal care of Mrs. Hill.'
Alan Shirley
My mum and dad Cyril and Gladys Shirley lived at Kokiri from the late 1930s to 1950s and remembered it being moved to StillwaterMary Moffitt
The heading of this post needs to be altered. This is the Stillwater hotel which burnt down and was replaced by the Kokiri one.
Laura Mills Detlaff
Mary Moffitt
Laura Mills Detlaff Thank you too.
Amanda Burney
Mary Moffitt do you know about the history of Nghaire,I have my great Grandparents William and Frances Fletcher up in the Cemetery?
Mary Moffitt
Amanda Burney Not much, sorry, but others will know if it is Ngahere just a few miles from where I lived between 1940 and 1970. I had classmates from there, or nearby at RedJacks, eg Wendy Robertson, but cannot remember many more.
June David Campbell
Was there ever a double storey hotel at the Moana/Reefton Highway intersection
Mary Moffitt
June David Campbell Yes, possibly. The photo of the Brunner Mine Disaster funeral procession passing this hotel location does show what looks like a double storeyed building. It may be because outbuildings were built on a slope at the junction, but. . .
Originally, the hotel located here was described as being on the Arnold Road which began at this Stillwater Junction and led to Moana (Lake Brunner) The hotel above tended to face the junction triangle and the main road.
It could be that a double storey building on the site did burn down at the time given in the original title of this post, after the Brunner Mine Disaster, to be replaced by the single storeyed one, and then again in the 1940s by the Kokiri Hotel.
Is it possible that two hotels were moved from Kokiri forty years apart? Don’t think so, but I will try to check this.
June David Campbell
Thank you for your interest. I am vaguely aware of a double story building there possibly in the 1940’s. Do you know if Herb Moore had a pub in Stillwater.
Mary Moffitt
June David Campbell Yes he did, for many years.
The current one, across the road from the railway station. There were three Moore families in Stillwater that I know of.
Joycelyn Hiha
Remember when it was at kokiri.
Noeline Pinn
Joycelyn Hiha I do too.
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Joan Mclean
Joan Mclean This is the original Stillwater Hotel. When it burnt down in the Kokiri Hotel was moved to the present site in Stillwater.
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Like · Reply · 1d
Mary Moffitt
Mary Moffitt Joan Mclean was the fire in the early forties? I was livid because I slept through the whole thing.
Manage
Like · Reply · 1d
Joan Mclean
Joan Mclean After the war I think.
Manage
Like · Reply · 1d
Mary Moffitt
Mary Moffitt Joan Mclean Thank you
Mary Moffitt
Our general store is shown behind the right end of the hotel.
· Reply · 2y
Joan Mclean
This is the original Stillwater Hotel. When it burnt down in the Kokiri Hotel was moved to the present site in Stillwater.
· Reply · 2y
Mary Moffitt
Joan Mclean was the fire in the early forties? I was livid because I slept through the whole thing.
· Reply · 2y
Joan Mclean
After the war I think.
· Reply · 2y
Trevor Molloy
my grandfather William Hartigan worked for the railways at Kokiri , the railway house that the family lived in is still there , it was shifted back from the railway line and converted into a shearing shed .
· Reply · 2y
Geoffrey Bell
Trevor Molloy. Your grandfather, William Hartigan, standing outside his house at Kokiri, close to the railway line.
May be an image of 1 person
Trevor Molloy
unfortunately I was only two years old when he died , he retired and then returned to work because of the labour shortage during the war ,Mum always said it was a shame that he never got to enjoy retirement as he was still working at the time of death … See More
Bryce Smith
I remember all you boys. Thanks for the memories.
· Reply · 2y
Joan Mclean
The Buucklys were the proprietors of the Hotel when it burnt down. Marie Buckly was in a photo posted earlier.
Mary Moffitt
Joan Mclean
Dave Wallace had it before the Buckleys. Their son Dave Wallace Jnr then had the two-roomed cottage between the school and the road at the top of the hill (Later the home of Bernie Galligan.) Dad lived at this hotel before he was married and then Mum and Dad stayed on till he built rooms onto the store. Mum said Mrs Wallace marked their marriage on her calendar!!! Cliff had bought the store from Cocky Richardson and moved it from where the hall was built. Previously he had a shed across the road for stores. Fruit and vegetables to start with.
Please correct if you remember differently.
Joan Mclean
There were other owners before the Buckleys
Mary Moffitt
Joan Mclean I don't remember them. I think your memory is better than mine.
Mary Moffitt
This is the Stillwater Hotel which was moved from Kokiri in the late Forties by T Croft (source - this site. Information contributed by Marilyn Smithem) It replaced the one at the head of this post, but was placed on a site opposite the Railway Station, and not on the site of the previous one at the road junction with Arnold Road. It has been extended since. The Arnold Road one is the hotel described in old records as Junction Hotel, Stillwater.
No photo description available.
Mary Moffitt
Someone will possibly have a photo of the Kokiri Hotel when it was located there. Think that it was in a much reduced size in that settlement.
Paul Quinlivan
Would anyone know if this is the same hotel as mentioned in the Nov 1920 Public Notice? I’m assuming the Mrs Hill referred to is Mrs Catherine Anastatia Hill.
May be an image of text that says 'GRA_19201120 PDF ××¢¢¢×× ×××××× nd Irene Castle in- IBLE OND." PUBLIO NOTICES, MIDLANDR RAILWAY HOTEL. .KOKIRI. HILL, PROPRIETOR. MR ARTHUR HILL, late of Barry- Town wishes to notiły. the General Publie that he has purchased the above well -known Hotel and hopes that by giving every attention to solicit ฉ share of their Patronage. .Only the. best of Liquors stocked, and True to Label, The domestic arrangements are un- der the personal care of Mrs. Hill.'
Alan Shirley
My mum and dad Cyril and Gladys Shirley lived at Kokiri from the late 1930s to 1950s and remembered it being moved to StillwaterMary Moffitt
The heading of this post needs to be altered. This is the Stillwater hotel which burnt down and was replaced by the Kokiri one.
Laura Mills Detlaff
Mary Moffitt
Laura Mills Detlaff Thank you too.
Amanda Burney
Mary Moffitt do you know about the history of Nghaire,I have my great Grandparents William and Frances Fletcher up in the Cemetery?
Mary Moffitt
Amanda Burney Not much, sorry, but others will know if it is Ngahere just a few miles from where I lived between 1940 and 1970. I had classmates from there, or nearby at RedJacks, eg Wendy Robertson, but cannot remember many more.
June David Campbell
Was there ever a double storey hotel at the Moana/Reefton Highway intersection
Mary Moffitt
June David Campbell Yes, possibly. The photo of the Brunner Mine Disaster funeral procession passing this hotel location does show what looks like a double storeyed building. It may be because outbuildings were built on a slope at the junction, but. . .
Originally, the hotel located here was described as being on the Arnold Road which began at this Stillwater Junction and led to Moana (Lake Brunner) The hotel above tended to face the junction triangle and the main road.
It could be that a double storey building on the site did burn down at the time given in the original title of this post, after the Brunner Mine Disaster, to be replaced by the single storeyed one, and then again in the 1940s by the Kokiri Hotel.
Is it possible that two hotels were moved from Kokiri forty years apart? Don’t think so, but I will try to check this.
June David Campbell
Thank you for your interest. I am vaguely aware of a double story building there possibly in the 1940’s. Do you know if Herb Moore had a pub in Stillwater.
Mary Moffitt
June David Campbell Yes he did, for many years.
The current one, across the road from the railway station. There were three Moore families in Stillwater that I know of.
Joycelyn Hiha
Remember when it was at kokiri.
Noeline Pinn
Joycelyn Hiha I do too.
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