Shikyna

Am interested in any anecdotes, photos, family histories or early memories of school there - up to 1960. This is for a book I am writing on the area.

Does anyone have any relations who owned hotels in Wanganui between 1840 and WWI? I am trying to track down some of those early hoteliers too numerous to mention!

I am currently researching a history of the early hotels in Wanganui and would love to hear from you if your family owned/ran a hotel previous to WWI. The list is too long to mention but if you are...