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Greyhound Hotel, Arahura.
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DescriptionJeffrey Peacock.." Lets see now..Tiny was whiskey and lemonade,George Tanui two jugs 4 glasses,John Keogan was a jug and packet Pall Mall,Max was a pony,and the famous horse piss Rheineck beer was introduced, and Max never had to pay when I was serving.I think we should all raise a glass to Spud..cheers Hec."
Excerpts re the Greyhound Hotel from Papers past.
BREACHES OF THE LICENSING ACT.October,1903.
(Per United Press Association.) HOKITIKA, October 24. John Fox, licensee 'of the Greyhound Hotel, Arahura, was fined £2 and costs for selling liquor after hours to travellers who had not completed their journey.
DEATH. West Coast Times.20 July 1891 .
On the 16th July, at his residence, Greyhound Hotel, Arahura. Patrick Quinn, aged 57 years, native of Carick-on-Suir, county Tipperrary, Ireland. R.I.P. Deeply regretted.
Map[1] ContributorErnest Hunt Becker
Excerpts re the Greyhound Hotel from Papers past.
BREACHES OF THE LICENSING ACT.October,1903.
(Per United Press Association.) HOKITIKA, October 24. John Fox, licensee 'of the Greyhound Hotel, Arahura, was fined £2 and costs for selling liquor after hours to travellers who had not completed their journey.
DEATH. West Coast Times.20 July 1891 .
On the 16th July, at his residence, Greyhound Hotel, Arahura. Patrick Quinn, aged 57 years, native of Carick-on-Suir, county Tipperrary, Ireland. R.I.P. Deeply regretted.
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Tom Daly - Yes he was a legend of a man.
Peter Bradley - Yep, a few good memories there.
Paul Buchanan - Wife's uncle Billy Henderson had this.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan, is Billy still around was in Navy ariund same time?
Paul Buchanan - Trevor Wylde, yes mate living in Arahura.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan Great. He hasn't travelled far.
Mike Gardyne - Bloody good pub this.
Mark Merriman - Mike Gardyne and a dramatic location.
Peter Dennehy - Went passed that a few times.
Jenny Marshall - Stopped there a few times..our underaged daughters made a few dollars on the machines.. they thought they were made.
Paul Buchanan - Wife's uncle Billy Henderson had this.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan, is Billy still around was in Navy ariund same time?
Paul Buchanan - Trevor Wylde, yes mate living in Arahura.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan Great. He hasn't travelled far.
Mike Gardyne - Bloody good pub this.
Mark Merriman - Mike Gardyne and a dramatic location.
Peter Dennehy - Went passed that a few times.
Jenny Marshall - Stopped there a few times..our underaged daughters made a few dollars on the machines.. they thought they were made.
John Paget - I went in there a few times, always wondered how a truck never took the lounge off.
Annette Martin - Had many great nights in the 60s and early 70s.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - Done a few hrs behind that bar , one night I arrived home with a piglet no idea how much work a piglet need to look after my father in law said no way but as usual a local got whiff of what I had purchased and was waiting for a phone call good old Martin Muir to the rescuer, Durham Havill, was the auctioneer all of them had it under control little did I no, Great times held and maturity gained from working along side these incredible wise friends.
Margaret Standen - Elizabeth Mehrtens, oh Lizzy that was the funniest night ever. If I remember it was a fundraiser for something.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - For a church I think after a tornado went thru will catch up with you on the rest of it when we are over.
Paddy Sweeney - Have 6 acres flat land virtually next door for sale, message me.
PaulAnthony Teens - Paddy Sweeney, it’s covered in water at mo, or cows.
Paddy Sweeney - Thank you for the testimonial Teeno, maybe I can do the same for u sometime.
Paul Buchanan - Wife's uncle Billy Henderson had this.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan, is Billy still around was in Navy ariund same time?
Paul Buchanan - Trevor Wylde, yes mate living in Arahura.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan Great. He hasn't travelled far.
Mike Gardyne - Bloody good pub this.
Mark Merriman - Mike Gardyne and a dramatic location.
Peter Dennehy - Went passed that a few times.
Jenny Marshall - Stopped there a few times..our underaged daughters made a few dollars on the machines.. they thought they were made.
John Paget - I went in there a few times, always wondered how a truck never took the lounge off.
Annette Martin - Had many great nights in the 60s and early 70s.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - Done a few hrs behind that bar , one night I arrived home with a piglet no idea how much work a piglet need to look after my father in law said no way but as usual a local got whiff of what I had purchased and was waiting for a phone call good old Martin Muir to the rescuer, Durham Havill, was the auctioneer all of them had it under control little did I no, Great times held and maturity gained from working along side these incredible wise friends.
Margaret Standen - Elizabeth Mehrtens, oh Lizzy that was the funniest night ever. If I remember it was a fundraiser for something.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - For a church I think after a tornado went thru will catch up with you on the rest of it when we are over.
Paddy Sweeney - Have 6 acres flat land virtually next door for sale, message me.
PaulAnthony Teens - Paddy Sweeney, it’s covered in water at mo, or cows.
Paddy Sweeney - Thank you for the testimonial Teeno, maybe I can do the same for u sometime.
Derious Worgan - Is this pub still going?
Heather Newby - Its gone.. I think it burnt down.
Wayne Searle - The day it was sold lol.
Rosemary Hutchison - Yep burnt down on the 12th June 1996, I left for Australia that day and dad rang me that night to say it burnt down, sad had a lot of good nights out there.
Derious Worgan - That's a shame went there a few times in 89 to 93 when on the coast.
Felicity Pudds - Stopped there for a few underage bevies before it burnt down. The 90 degree corners were a test of skill. I still have a pen drawing postcard my father did.
Trish Barlow - Wayne Searle nice story, so who brought it lol?
Wayne Searle - I have no idea.
Trish Barlow - Wayne Searle, awesome.
Dorothy Wills - Drove past this pub quite a few times with that sharp corner. It’s a wonder no one ended up in the bar in their car.
Heather Newby - That's what I thought too.
Bob Homewood - We used to see how close to the corner of the building we could get when going past.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - Nearly happened quite a few times made the nights interesting.
Deborah Marley - We used to call in there wen I was a kid on our way to see my uncle in hoki.
Phyllis Aberhart - I was always going to get a photo of it but never did.
PaulAnthony Teens - There Is Only one of the many publicanDorothy Wills - Drove past this pub quite a few times with that sharp corner. It’s a wonder no one ended up in the bar in their car.
Heather Newby - That's what I thought too.
Bob Homewood - We used to see how close to the corner of the building we could get when going past.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - Nearly happened quite a few times made the nights interesting.
Deborah Marley - We used to call in there wen I was a kid on our way to see my uncle in hoki.
Phyllis Aberhart - I was always going to get a photo of it but never did.
PaulAnthony Teens - There Is Only one of the many publicans still standing.
Sheri-Phil Wright - Bronwyn Foster...we soooooo old.
Keith Molloy - Great watering hole.
Rod Berry - Myself and Basil Ford can tell a good story about this place. Without Basil's say i cannot tell you the story.
Paddy Sweeney - Rod Berry, I'm sure Basil wouldn't mind.
Arlene Hutcheon - I remember going past that hotel on the way to Hoki to see my grandparents, dad was driving so I was quite young.
Di Henderson - Richie Gibbens was a 7oz DB with a head on it. Look out if there was no head ... Great place to work. Always a laugh when Gibbens, Durham Havill, Frank Bradley etc got into debates about the trees and the birds lol.
Shane Duncan - Last time I was in that pub I bought a bottle of rum and dropped it and broke on the old Arahura bridge.
Nova Elizabeth Hichens - I knew it when it was Scott Base.
Brett Baxendale - I used to love hooking a hard left on that corner.
Harry Mullen - Was there the night it blew up.
Geoffrey King - Oh thats the Abbo's pub!
Helen Singer - Had many of great nights there when Bill Henderson had it. I would stay there when Charle and Bill went shooting.
Martin Burt - Fond memories...
Helen Cropper - Sandra Dolbear, remember you almost missed the corner when learning to drive Neville’s car.
Heather Newby - Helen Cropper crikey!
Sandra Dolbear - Helen Cropper sure do. Listening to Devo.
Triple Bee - Had a good payout on the pokies there one day on the way home from Greymouth...... must've been about 10 years old lol.
Anne Brown - Great pub.
Alison Armstrong - Have been passed the Greyhound quite a few times.. Ahh the memories. .
Terence Pugh - David Paul (Chicken George) and I painted the kitchen and toilets for Boss Hogg once, what a laugh!!!
Nikki Tamatea - Didn't it burn down a few years ago?
Irene Anderson - Been there lots.
Chris Rabey - Great pub,had many a beer there. Did all of you know why it burnt down? A pay fire had been burning under it for about 50 years then it found a pocket of air and woosh!!!! Up the fire came and consumed the pub.
Chris Rabey - Sorry peat fire. Stupid auto corrective text.
Myron Caldwell - A little like many other West Coast pubs which succumbed to fire in unusual ways.
Kyle Webster - I was served by a ten-year old girl the one time I went in there on a hospital staff bus-crawl.
Chris Rabey - Kyle Webster, and no one batted an eyelid, Kyle. Things we do on the coast, unlike the rest of NZ.
Kyle Webster - I think she may've been a relation.
Bevan Pringle - Great old pub not many left now in Hokitika very sad not like the old days.
Karin Carter - Miss this little beauty.
Trevor Hutt - Passed out in that pub a few times.
Charlie Cleghorn - Used to have a few beers and then go to the dance.
Ron McCann - I had a car that wouldn't go past that pub.
Heather Newby - Ron McCann funny that!!
Dave Howell - Great old pub.
Robert Skilton - Yeah that place also had a strange effect on rugby team cars getting back home to Hokitika after playing in Greymouth on a Saturday and on more than one occasion I might add!
Heather Newby - Ha ha ha.
Robert Skilton - But that was in the days when you could and get away with what you would probably be thrown in the big house for for the night now! That is if the copper didn't have a fit at you first these days for being in that sort of condition whilst being in charge of an automobile at that hour of the day!!! (or early morning as was usually normal in those days)
Charles Carson - Visited not too long ago. Great place.
Wayne Searle - 1996 it burned down.
Charles Carson - Oh, fkd up, looks exactly like a pub I went to north of Westport.
Wayne Searle - It certainly does, I can think of a couple of other pubs on the Coast very similar design Cheers.
Christine Stewart - I know that road and pub. Lol
Wayne Searle - Gee your old, just like me lol.
Christine Stewart - Travel past it enough lol.
Colin Sandra Moss - Some good nights in that pub.:)
Bob Stanger - It would flood on that corner.
PaulAnthony Teens - Bas would fall over before he got in the bar.
Rod Berry - He would fall over if i tell the story, no disrespects Bas.
Jeffrey Peacock - Man coral would cook a hell of feed.....little thing that she was.......had a bet with boss that if i stayed on rum an coke i wouldn't throw up......he slipped me a raspberry an coke an up all came all over the pool table.....was worth losing the bet to watch him clean the table lololoolol.
Jeffrey Peacock - Had some good bandmills dos in there too.
Paul Buchanan
Wifes uncle had this (greyhound?) For years billy henderson.
Bruce Tones
Paul Buchanan yes, and been there heaps of times, when billy owned it, was a great pub
Linda Griffin
Trish Briggs a lot of sundays spent there
Trevor Hutt
Got trashed in there many times..
Peter Bradley
Trevor Hutt yes installed one or two hangovers there too…..
Annie Biondo
Trevor Hutt there wasn’t a pub that you didn’t get trashed was there. ??
Annie Biondo
Or you Peter Bradley?
Trevor Hutt
Annie Biondo, let me think about that nope you are correct..
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Linda Erikson
Went there, riding pillion on a Vespa scooter 5aged 17. My misspent youth.
Di Henderson
Richie Gibbens. 7oz DB with a head on
Aroha Meihana
Nora Mcquarrie is uncle spud Hec?
Jack Stewart
Had few 7s in there
Jeff Louwman
Trevor Wilson could split matches on the dart board in that pub, a pleasure to watch
Johnny Kwin
Used to stop by regularly for a quick beer. They had a really great greenstone collection, some big beauties lying around on the floor.
Arlene Hutcheon
I remember Dad driving past the Greyhound on our way to Hokitika to stay with the grandparents. Wasn't it painted green back in the 70's? The new road misses it completely now
Jillene Magee
Arlene Hutcheon Thee Greyhound Tavern burnt down so not only does the road miss it but it's not there any more.
Ash Pace
Last stop before Hoki on the bus
Geoff Sutton
Had a few good night's and days in there
Heather Reid
Funny can do that from Runanga Club
Phyllis Aberhart
I was always going to fet a photo there but never did
Shawry Shaw
Toni Caldwell show chaz
Barry Appleton
Round the world with Wendy Cadigan
Wendy Cadigan
Barry Appleton good times Tuzzin. X
Kate Fairhall
Sophie Fearn, your favourite pub on the way to Nan and Pops!
Kevy Rea
Yes me an my father use to play darts there
Edwin Lord
A Great Pub to stop at.Back in the Day.
Pat Wills
I remember all the green stone
Joy Meyer
Went there when we played darts against greyhound in the late 80's. lol
Gavin Menzies
Trucks came so close the vibrations moved the balls on the pool table...or at least that was my excuse, fantastic memories
Leeanne Sneddon
Gavin Menzies I was in a Riley elf going around that corner on 2 wheels scaryist ride ever lol
Dale Pamment
Our old Local…. Sad night when it burnt down
Jenny Keogan
Lol your spot on with my dad-same bar stool as well
Heather Gaulter
That dreaded corner
Richard Cudmore
Excelsior rugby trips away
Last pub on way home
Many good sessions in there
Enjoyed my rugby days back in the old days!!
Richard Cudmore
No pubs in shannon !!!!
Ryan Langridge
Kent Paterson
Collene Neander
my Gran went there Gran Becker My mum was Mae BeckerDean Hetherington
Grandad Jack Hyndman would take me down sometimes on a Sunday afternoon for a raspberry and lemonade
Feral Parker
Boss Hogg (Gordon Webster) was a good publican, bought his D series Ford along with the digger on the back of the ex army truck when he bought the pub, he put in a few cattle races.
I knew Gordon when he was contacting outa Rolleston way.
I remember one night some local at the Greyhound came in ordered a beer and placed a ten dollar note on the bar (ten bucks was a lot of money back then) Gordon have home| his beer and asked where his change was to which Boss Hogg replied, you're coming back aren't you? So he more or less paid for his tab in advance lol
Jude Wastney
Best pubs have always been West Coast pubs. We managed the Whataroa and my cousin and her husband, Zelda and Johnny Martin, had the Railway Hotel in Greymouth and The Pioneer in Hokitika and another one as well
Lynn Mc Queen
It was a good pub..always felt comfortable as if you were long lost cuzzie...loved ladies pool nights Frank Karen Bradley
Frank went to shut a gate 3 times a week but didn’t come back. Guess where he was
Wendy Bedford
Had a good many night's drinking there
Ty Tainui
I can still see Ace McCloud ( Jason Tuhuru ) asleep on th road outside lol
Trevor Hutt
Crawled out of there many times.
Viv Bennett
So many memories of this place
Dawn N Jack Fearn
Great to see have had the odd ale there in it's time.
Kevin John Wall
Yes just up the road
When I worked at Hokitika Bandmills , Ritchie Gibbons would have the Christmas Doos there
I was so young hard trying to keep up with all the seasoned drinkers
Hey but it didn’t take to many years to get the hang of it
Frank Karen Bradley
Had one or two beers there myself !!!
Trish Rennie
Had many a fun time there on “mystery” bus trips.
Peter Arthur
Had a few beers there back in the 70's.
Quentin Johansson
Had a few moro bars and packets of chips, while waiting in the car out in the car park
Alan Beck
Right angle turn, as it seemed once.
Barbara Scott
Had my first drink in a pub there, Granddad took me in, I was 4. He bought me a raspberry and lemonade
Jane Georgeson
Sat in the car with chippies and bottle raspberry many a time as a kid waiting on mum and dad
Brian Hibbs
The pool night suppers were something else, pork bones, pig trotters etc, cheers boss hog Gordon Webster
Jack Tehan
Those guys gone but not forgotten
Tracey Kearns
Boom Best pub
Beanz Sandrey
Boss hogg always put on great feed for pool and darts nights
Dave Maitland
Bill was the man
Greg Mait
Great Pub . Those were the days . First pub I ever went into
Russell Wilson
Had a few sessions there.
Malcolme Sutton
Worked with hec an awesome guy
Dave Bj Henderson
Muzzo and i, also a few as well.
Allister Leach
Ross Leach was known to stop in on the odd occasion....
Hemi Mason
Awesome memories
Mark Rothera
Ha heard the crazys comming a mile away gunning it until they hit the hair pin lol
Vic Ollerenshaw
I agree it was a great stop anytime.
Craig Jarden
Brian Hibbs we were coming back from redmonds when i saw that the pub had burnt down.
Tony Simpson
I never went into the Arahura pub (too young ..... or so I thought at the time) but was always amazed at how closely the patrons were to the road....
Kev Rasmussen
One of the hottest fires I had attended,took for ever to put out good old native timber.
Peter Guenole
Had a few beers and breakfasts there after night shift back in the L&M days also a few after it burnt down with a pig on the spit
Donna Mackett
Great stop off on the way to Hokitika
Tom Jones
Had a beverage or 3 with all the named people
Russell Wilson
Had a few sessions there.
Wayne Goodisson
Good pub
Jolon Feral Lilley
Now you kid's stay out here and here's your raspberry an coke and a bag of chips
Peter Guenole
Had a few beers and breakfasts there after night shift back in the L&M days also a few after it burnt down with a pig on the spit
Gina Schroder
And Coral too, sitting in the corner. Lovely lady!
Glenda Bishop
such a cool pub!!
Michael Dense
Greyhound hotel last publican Pat Barlow
Bob Broadhurst
It's a wonder the corner of that pub didn't get taken out regularly
Bruce Tones
Had a few in there in my day
Russell Hines
same here Bruce Tones, always a stop on the way home from Hoki
Mark Frewin
Used to stop off there on our way back to the foundry from working at the dairy factory
June Griggs
Stop there many a time with a car load of Blaketown rugby players in the car.
David Lindsay
My grandparents had it for a while in the 60's
Holly Briggs
Trish Briggs
Leann Wisdom
Pat Barlow my uncle. Rip.....
Leann Wisdom
Donna Barlow Trish Barlow Michelle Barlow
Leann Wisdom
Donna Barlow
Roy W Bright
is it still there?
Raewyn Louttit
Wow had lots of beers there
Kelvin Henham
Bob Broadhurst had to slow down so much to take the corner the carpark was the best option lol
Cheryl Johnston
I remember that pub, did it burn down?
Judy Nicoll
No they rerouted the main road and took out that bend and the overhead bridge
David Lindsay
And then it burnt down!
Judy Nicoll
Oh ok which came first the fire or the new road
David Lindsay
No...they closed the road first. ..There were rumours that it wasn't an accident!
Judy Nicoll
Lol ok
David Thomas Healy
Had a beer or 3 in that pub in about 1971.
Jonts McKerrow
Good pub. Great times
Katene Campbell
Nah it burnt dwn first thn new road
Beverley Hooper
I agree. Was a cool pub on a corner that wasn't so cool.
Tom Daly - Yes he was a legend of a man.
Peter Bradley - Yep, a few good memories there.
Paul Buchanan - Wife's uncle Billy Henderson had this.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan, is Billy still around was in Navy ariund same time?
Paul Buchanan - Trevor Wylde, yes mate living in Arahura.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan Great. He hasn't travelled far.
Mike Gardyne - Bloody good pub this.
Mark Merriman - Mike Gardyne and a dramatic location.
Peter Dennehy - Went passed that a few times.
Jenny Marshall - Stopped there a few times..our underaged daughters made a few dollars on the machines.. they thought they were made.
Paul Buchanan - Wife's uncle Billy Henderson had this.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan, is Billy still around was in Navy ariund same time?
Paul Buchanan - Trevor Wylde, yes mate living in Arahura.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan Great. He hasn't travelled far.
Mike Gardyne - Bloody good pub this.
Mark Merriman - Mike Gardyne and a dramatic location.
Peter Dennehy - Went passed that a few times.
Jenny Marshall - Stopped there a few times..our underaged daughters made a few dollars on the machines.. they thought they were made.
John Paget - I went in there a few times, always wondered how a truck never took the lounge off.
Annette Martin - Had many great nights in the 60s and early 70s.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - Done a few hrs behind that bar , one night I arrived home with a piglet no idea how much work a piglet need to look after my father in law said no way but as usual a local got whiff of what I had purchased and was waiting for a phone call good old Martin Muir to the rescuer, Durham Havill, was the auctioneer all of them had it under control little did I no, Great times held and maturity gained from working along side these incredible wise friends.
Margaret Standen - Elizabeth Mehrtens, oh Lizzy that was the funniest night ever. If I remember it was a fundraiser for something.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - For a church I think after a tornado went thru will catch up with you on the rest of it when we are over.
Paddy Sweeney - Have 6 acres flat land virtually next door for sale, message me.
PaulAnthony Teens - Paddy Sweeney, it’s covered in water at mo, or cows.
Paddy Sweeney - Thank you for the testimonial Teeno, maybe I can do the same for u sometime.
Paul Buchanan - Wife's uncle Billy Henderson had this.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan, is Billy still around was in Navy ariund same time?
Paul Buchanan - Trevor Wylde, yes mate living in Arahura.
Trevor Wylde - Paul Buchanan Great. He hasn't travelled far.
Mike Gardyne - Bloody good pub this.
Mark Merriman - Mike Gardyne and a dramatic location.
Peter Dennehy - Went passed that a few times.
Jenny Marshall - Stopped there a few times..our underaged daughters made a few dollars on the machines.. they thought they were made.
John Paget - I went in there a few times, always wondered how a truck never took the lounge off.
Annette Martin - Had many great nights in the 60s and early 70s.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - Done a few hrs behind that bar , one night I arrived home with a piglet no idea how much work a piglet need to look after my father in law said no way but as usual a local got whiff of what I had purchased and was waiting for a phone call good old Martin Muir to the rescuer, Durham Havill, was the auctioneer all of them had it under control little did I no, Great times held and maturity gained from working along side these incredible wise friends.
Margaret Standen - Elizabeth Mehrtens, oh Lizzy that was the funniest night ever. If I remember it was a fundraiser for something.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - For a church I think after a tornado went thru will catch up with you on the rest of it when we are over.
Paddy Sweeney - Have 6 acres flat land virtually next door for sale, message me.
PaulAnthony Teens - Paddy Sweeney, it’s covered in water at mo, or cows.
Paddy Sweeney - Thank you for the testimonial Teeno, maybe I can do the same for u sometime.
Derious Worgan - Is this pub still going?
Heather Newby - Its gone.. I think it burnt down.
Wayne Searle - The day it was sold lol.
Rosemary Hutchison - Yep burnt down on the 12th June 1996, I left for Australia that day and dad rang me that night to say it burnt down, sad had a lot of good nights out there.
Derious Worgan - That's a shame went there a few times in 89 to 93 when on the coast.
Felicity Pudds - Stopped there for a few underage bevies before it burnt down. The 90 degree corners were a test of skill. I still have a pen drawing postcard my father did.
Trish Barlow - Wayne Searle nice story, so who brought it lol?
Wayne Searle - I have no idea.
Trish Barlow - Wayne Searle, awesome.
Dorothy Wills - Drove past this pub quite a few times with that sharp corner. It’s a wonder no one ended up in the bar in their car.
Heather Newby - That's what I thought too.
Bob Homewood - We used to see how close to the corner of the building we could get when going past.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - Nearly happened quite a few times made the nights interesting.
Deborah Marley - We used to call in there wen I was a kid on our way to see my uncle in hoki.
Phyllis Aberhart - I was always going to get a photo of it but never did.
PaulAnthony Teens - There Is Only one of the many publicanDorothy Wills - Drove past this pub quite a few times with that sharp corner. It’s a wonder no one ended up in the bar in their car.
Heather Newby - That's what I thought too.
Bob Homewood - We used to see how close to the corner of the building we could get when going past.
Elizabeth Mehrtens - Nearly happened quite a few times made the nights interesting.
Deborah Marley - We used to call in there wen I was a kid on our way to see my uncle in hoki.
Phyllis Aberhart - I was always going to get a photo of it but never did.
PaulAnthony Teens - There Is Only one of the many publicans still standing.
Sheri-Phil Wright - Bronwyn Foster...we soooooo old.
Keith Molloy - Great watering hole.
Rod Berry - Myself and Basil Ford can tell a good story about this place. Without Basil's say i cannot tell you the story.
Paddy Sweeney - Rod Berry, I'm sure Basil wouldn't mind.
Arlene Hutcheon - I remember going past that hotel on the way to Hoki to see my grandparents, dad was driving so I was quite young.
Di Henderson - Richie Gibbens was a 7oz DB with a head on it. Look out if there was no head ... Great place to work. Always a laugh when Gibbens, Durham Havill, Frank Bradley etc got into debates about the trees and the birds lol.
Shane Duncan - Last time I was in that pub I bought a bottle of rum and dropped it and broke on the old Arahura bridge.
Nova Elizabeth Hichens - I knew it when it was Scott Base.
Brett Baxendale - I used to love hooking a hard left on that corner.
Harry Mullen - Was there the night it blew up.
Geoffrey King - Oh thats the Abbo's pub!
Helen Singer - Had many of great nights there when Bill Henderson had it. I would stay there when Charle and Bill went shooting.
Martin Burt - Fond memories...
Helen Cropper - Sandra Dolbear, remember you almost missed the corner when learning to drive Neville’s car.
Heather Newby - Helen Cropper crikey!
Sandra Dolbear - Helen Cropper sure do. Listening to Devo.
Triple Bee - Had a good payout on the pokies there one day on the way home from Greymouth...... must've been about 10 years old lol.
Anne Brown - Great pub.
Alison Armstrong - Have been passed the Greyhound quite a few times.. Ahh the memories. .
Terence Pugh - David Paul (Chicken George) and I painted the kitchen and toilets for Boss Hogg once, what a laugh!!!
Nikki Tamatea - Didn't it burn down a few years ago?
Irene Anderson - Been there lots.
Chris Rabey - Great pub,had many a beer there. Did all of you know why it burnt down? A pay fire had been burning under it for about 50 years then it found a pocket of air and woosh!!!! Up the fire came and consumed the pub.
Chris Rabey - Sorry peat fire. Stupid auto corrective text.
Myron Caldwell - A little like many other West Coast pubs which succumbed to fire in unusual ways.
Kyle Webster - I was served by a ten-year old girl the one time I went in there on a hospital staff bus-crawl.
Chris Rabey - Kyle Webster, and no one batted an eyelid, Kyle. Things we do on the coast, unlike the rest of NZ.
Kyle Webster - I think she may've been a relation.
Bevan Pringle - Great old pub not many left now in Hokitika very sad not like the old days.
Karin Carter - Miss this little beauty.
Trevor Hutt - Passed out in that pub a few times.
Charlie Cleghorn - Used to have a few beers and then go to the dance.
Ron McCann - I had a car that wouldn't go past that pub.
Heather Newby - Ron McCann funny that!!
Dave Howell - Great old pub.
Robert Skilton - Yeah that place also had a strange effect on rugby team cars getting back home to Hokitika after playing in Greymouth on a Saturday and on more than one occasion I might add!
Heather Newby - Ha ha ha.
Robert Skilton - But that was in the days when you could and get away with what you would probably be thrown in the big house for for the night now! That is if the copper didn't have a fit at you first these days for being in that sort of condition whilst being in charge of an automobile at that hour of the day!!! (or early morning as was usually normal in those days)
Charles Carson - Visited not too long ago. Great place.
Wayne Searle - 1996 it burned down.
Charles Carson - Oh, fkd up, looks exactly like a pub I went to north of Westport.
Wayne Searle - It certainly does, I can think of a couple of other pubs on the Coast very similar design Cheers.
Christine Stewart - I know that road and pub. Lol
Wayne Searle - Gee your old, just like me lol.
Christine Stewart - Travel past it enough lol.
Colin Sandra Moss - Some good nights in that pub.:)
Bob Stanger - It would flood on that corner.
PaulAnthony Teens - Bas would fall over before he got in the bar.
Rod Berry - He would fall over if i tell the story, no disrespects Bas.
Jeffrey Peacock - Man coral would cook a hell of feed.....little thing that she was.......had a bet with boss that if i stayed on rum an coke i wouldn't throw up......he slipped me a raspberry an coke an up all came all over the pool table.....was worth losing the bet to watch him clean the table lololoolol.
Jeffrey Peacock - Had some good bandmills dos in there too.
Paul Buchanan
Wifes uncle had this (greyhound?) For years billy henderson.
Bruce Tones
Paul Buchanan yes, and been there heaps of times, when billy owned it, was a great pub
Linda Griffin
Trish Briggs a lot of sundays spent there
Trevor Hutt
Got trashed in there many times..
Peter Bradley
Trevor Hutt yes installed one or two hangovers there too…..
Annie Biondo
Trevor Hutt there wasn’t a pub that you didn’t get trashed was there. ??
Annie Biondo
Or you Peter Bradley?
Trevor Hutt
Annie Biondo, let me think about that nope you are correct..
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Linda Erikson
Went there, riding pillion on a Vespa scooter 5aged 17. My misspent youth.
Di Henderson
Richie Gibbens. 7oz DB with a head on
Aroha Meihana
Nora Mcquarrie is uncle spud Hec?
Jack Stewart
Had few 7s in there
Jeff Louwman
Trevor Wilson could split matches on the dart board in that pub, a pleasure to watch
Johnny Kwin
Used to stop by regularly for a quick beer. They had a really great greenstone collection, some big beauties lying around on the floor.
Arlene Hutcheon
I remember Dad driving past the Greyhound on our way to Hokitika to stay with the grandparents. Wasn't it painted green back in the 70's? The new road misses it completely now
Jillene Magee
Arlene Hutcheon Thee Greyhound Tavern burnt down so not only does the road miss it but it's not there any more.
Ash Pace
Last stop before Hoki on the bus
Geoff Sutton
Had a few good night's and days in there
Heather Reid
Funny can do that from Runanga Club
Phyllis Aberhart
I was always going to fet a photo there but never did
Shawry Shaw
Toni Caldwell show chaz
Barry Appleton
Round the world with Wendy Cadigan
Wendy Cadigan
Barry Appleton good times Tuzzin. X
Kate Fairhall
Sophie Fearn, your favourite pub on the way to Nan and Pops!
Kevy Rea
Yes me an my father use to play darts there
Edwin Lord
A Great Pub to stop at.Back in the Day.
Pat Wills
I remember all the green stone
Joy Meyer
Went there when we played darts against greyhound in the late 80's. lol
Gavin Menzies
Trucks came so close the vibrations moved the balls on the pool table...or at least that was my excuse, fantastic memories
Leeanne Sneddon
Gavin Menzies I was in a Riley elf going around that corner on 2 wheels scaryist ride ever lol
Dale Pamment
Our old Local…. Sad night when it burnt down
Jenny Keogan
Lol your spot on with my dad-same bar stool as well
Heather Gaulter
That dreaded corner
Richard Cudmore
Excelsior rugby trips away
Last pub on way home
Many good sessions in there
Enjoyed my rugby days back in the old days!!
Richard Cudmore
No pubs in shannon !!!!
Ryan Langridge
Kent Paterson
Collene Neander
my Gran went there Gran Becker My mum was Mae BeckerDean Hetherington
Grandad Jack Hyndman would take me down sometimes on a Sunday afternoon for a raspberry and lemonade
Feral Parker
Boss Hogg (Gordon Webster) was a good publican, bought his D series Ford along with the digger on the back of the ex army truck when he bought the pub, he put in a few cattle races.
I knew Gordon when he was contacting outa Rolleston way.
I remember one night some local at the Greyhound came in ordered a beer and placed a ten dollar note on the bar (ten bucks was a lot of money back then) Gordon have home| his beer and asked where his change was to which Boss Hogg replied, you're coming back aren't you? So he more or less paid for his tab in advance lol
Jude Wastney
Best pubs have always been West Coast pubs. We managed the Whataroa and my cousin and her husband, Zelda and Johnny Martin, had the Railway Hotel in Greymouth and The Pioneer in Hokitika and another one as well
Lynn Mc Queen
It was a good pub..always felt comfortable as if you were long lost cuzzie...loved ladies pool nights Frank Karen Bradley
Frank went to shut a gate 3 times a week but didn’t come back. Guess where he was
Wendy Bedford
Had a good many night's drinking there
Ty Tainui
I can still see Ace McCloud ( Jason Tuhuru ) asleep on th road outside lol
Trevor Hutt
Crawled out of there many times.
Viv Bennett
So many memories of this place
Dawn N Jack Fearn
Great to see have had the odd ale there in it's time.
Kevin John Wall
Yes just up the road
When I worked at Hokitika Bandmills , Ritchie Gibbons would have the Christmas Doos there
I was so young hard trying to keep up with all the seasoned drinkers
Hey but it didn’t take to many years to get the hang of it
Frank Karen Bradley
Had one or two beers there myself !!!
Trish Rennie
Had many a fun time there on “mystery” bus trips.
Peter Arthur
Had a few beers there back in the 70's.
Quentin Johansson
Had a few moro bars and packets of chips, while waiting in the car out in the car park
Alan Beck
Right angle turn, as it seemed once.
Barbara Scott
Had my first drink in a pub there, Granddad took me in, I was 4. He bought me a raspberry and lemonade
Jane Georgeson
Sat in the car with chippies and bottle raspberry many a time as a kid waiting on mum and dad
Brian Hibbs
The pool night suppers were something else, pork bones, pig trotters etc, cheers boss hog Gordon Webster
Jack Tehan
Those guys gone but not forgotten
Tracey Kearns
Boom Best pub
Beanz Sandrey
Boss hogg always put on great feed for pool and darts nights
Dave Maitland
Bill was the man
Greg Mait
Great Pub . Those were the days . First pub I ever went into
Russell Wilson
Had a few sessions there.
Malcolme Sutton
Worked with hec an awesome guy
Dave Bj Henderson
Muzzo and i, also a few as well.
Allister Leach
Ross Leach was known to stop in on the odd occasion....
Hemi Mason
Awesome memories
Mark Rothera
Ha heard the crazys comming a mile away gunning it until they hit the hair pin lol
Vic Ollerenshaw
I agree it was a great stop anytime.
Craig Jarden
Brian Hibbs we were coming back from redmonds when i saw that the pub had burnt down.
Tony Simpson
I never went into the Arahura pub (too young ..... or so I thought at the time) but was always amazed at how closely the patrons were to the road....
Kev Rasmussen
One of the hottest fires I had attended,took for ever to put out good old native timber.
Peter Guenole
Had a few beers and breakfasts there after night shift back in the L&M days also a few after it burnt down with a pig on the spit
Donna Mackett
Great stop off on the way to Hokitika
Tom Jones
Had a beverage or 3 with all the named people
Russell Wilson
Had a few sessions there.
Wayne Goodisson
Good pub
Jolon Feral Lilley
Now you kid's stay out here and here's your raspberry an coke and a bag of chips
Peter Guenole
Had a few beers and breakfasts there after night shift back in the L&M days also a few after it burnt down with a pig on the spit
Gina Schroder
And Coral too, sitting in the corner. Lovely lady!
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