Westland Publicans 1920

the WEST COAST Region of New Zealand is one of the more remote and most sparsely populated areas of the country. It includes three districts: Buller, Grey and Westland. The principal towns are Westport, Greymouth and Hokitika. In the early years of settlement in Westland, gold was a major commodity, causing prospectors to flock into the area.

HOTEL LICENSE RENEWALS Westland June 1920
Grey River Argus, 5 June 1920 LICENSING BENCH
WESTLAND BOARD MEETS
Yesterday the Bench met at Hokitika, there being present: Messrs: E. C. Levvey (Chairman), C. J. Nightingale, F. McGregor, A. Clifton and F. H. Kilgour. Sergeant Rawle and Sergeant McCarthy appeared for the Police

RENEWALS
The following application were granted:-
• Edwin ASHTON, Railway Hotel, Greymouth

• Mary JANE BERGSTROM, Marquis of Lorne Hotel, Hokitika

• Charles BLACK, Junction Hotel, Ross

• Alexander COWIE, Post Office Hotel, Hokitika

• Thomas DEVANEY, Club Hotel, Hokitika

• Hugh Francis DOOGAN (1866-1930), Recreation Hotel, Greymouth

• Samuel G. FERGUSON, Fern Grove Hotel, Ferguson's

• P. M. FITZGERALD, Suburban Hotel, Greymouth

• Martha FOLEY, Foley's Hotel, Westbrook

• Joseph Llewellyn FOWLER (1870-1942), Central Hotel, Hokitika

• Norman FRIEND, Royal Hotel, Waiho

• Henry Charles Douglas GAYLOR, Royal Mail Hotel, Woodstock

• James William GRAHAM, Glacier Hotel, Waiho

• Mary GRAHAM, Longford Hotel, Kokatahi

• William HALL, Dunedin Hotel, Hokitika

• Michael HANRAHAN, Helvetia Hotel, Goldsboro

• Elizabeth A. HEAD, Empire Hotel, Kanieri

• Margaret R. HENDERSON, Mahinapua Hotel, Mahinapua

• Frank HEVELDT, Okarito Forks Hotel

• Margaret HINNIGAN, Union Hotel, Maori Gully

• David HUNTER, Pioneer Hotel, Hokitika

• David A. JACKSON, Bush Inn Accommodation House

• Henry JONES, Railway Hotel, Hokitika

• Gerald W. KELLER, Keller's Hotel, Hokitika

• Alethea LAMACROFT (1863-1945 nee McFADYEN), Commercial Hotel, Rimu
- Alethea married George Hooper Lamacroft in 1887. George was at Donnelly's Creek, Ross in 1881 otherwise little else is known of him. George, Alethea and their two daughters, Ellen Violet & Jessie Victoria, appear to have been the only Lamacroft family in NZ. George died in Rimu in August 1891 aged 44

• Thomas LEAMY (1859-1943), Perry's Range Hotel, Jacksons

• Charlotte LEWIS, Pearn's Hotel, Kunara

• Emma Rose LUNDQUIST, Empire Hotel, Greymouth
- Emma married Thorwald Vilhelm RASMUSSEN in 1920

• William MacFARLANE, Royal Hotel, Greymouth

• Frances MAHER, Dominion Hotel, Hokitika

• Mary G. MARSHALL, Three Mile Hotel, Three Mile

• Joseph MARKHAM, Paroa Hotel Paroa

• Annie MARTIN, Brian Boru Hotel, Greymouth

• Edward MARTYN, Empire Hotel, Kumara

• Patrick Thomas McCONNON (1876-1960), Kokatahi Hotel, Kokatahi

• Patrick McCORMICK, Golden Eagle Hotel, Greymouth

• Peter McDONALD, Dundalk Hotel, Kumara

• John J. McINTOSH, Red Lion Hotel, Hokitika

• William McLEAN, Railway Hotel, Kumara Junction

• Francis MOORE, Clydesdale Hotel, Ross

• Lewis Edward MORGAN, Caledonian Hotel, Stafford

• William MORGAN, Mitchell's Hotel, Brunner

• John MORRISSEY, Cashmere Bay Hotel, Te Kinga

• Denis MOYNIHAN, Otira Gorge Hotel, Otira

• Margaret MULVIHALL, Courthouse Hotel, Kumara

• Julia MULLINS, Kamaka Hotel, Kamaka

• Michael MURPHY, Murphy's Hotel, Kumara

• Patrick O'BRIEN, Commercial Hotel, Nelson Creek

• Thomas O'BRIEN, Caledonian Hotel, Greymouth

• Gerald PEROTTI, Commercial Hotel, Greymouth
- there was a Gerald Perotti snr & jnr, The following could refer to either.
Gerald Perotti (possibly snr) was the Italian Consul in Greymouth.
In Feb 1890 Gerald Perotti was the manager of the Minerva Gold-Mining Company Ltd., the office of which was at his residence in Tainui street, Greymouth. In Feb 1891 his application for a special site at Smoke O Creek, Upper Blackball was granted. He was still in Blackball in 1894. In Feb 1911 he surrendered his prospecting license in Reefton and obtained a sawmill license. His old (unoccupied) boardinghouse at Dunollie was burned to the ground in Dec 1917 in a fire that raged out of control in the township for some days

• Edward M. QUINN, Oriental Hotel, Greymouth

• Deborah Jane RATHBON (1870-1938), Imperial Hotel, Greymouth
- had the Railway Hotel at Kumara Junction in 1918
(previously owned by William Robert KETTLE (1855-1928)

• Bridget ROBERTS, Commercial Hotel, Ross

• Arthur ROBINSON, Tramway Hotel, Taramakau

• Samuel J. ROWE, Junction Hotel, Dillmanstown

• Robert RUSSELL, Park Hotel, Greymouth

• Daniel RYAN, All Nations Hotel, Rimu

• Thomas SHANNAHAN, Criterion Hotel, Greymouth

• James SHANNON, Globe Hotel, Dillmanstown

• Edward Tanner SHERRIFF, Exchange Hotel, Blue Spur

• Joseph SHRIVES (1856-1942), Midland Railway Hotel, Kokiri

• William S. STEWART, Masonic Hotel, Hokitika

• Ellen Mary TOKER (1875-1960), Greyhound Hotel, Arahura

• James Douglas WINGHAM (1883-1931), Albion Hotel, Greymouth
- James married Henrietta McINTYRE in 1910

• William WRIGHT, Lake Ianthe Hotel, Lake Ianthe

The application of Charles George McKECHNIE (1885-1951), Empire Hotel, Moana, was withdrawn
- Charles married Jane Gertrude KOHLOFF (1887-1961) in 1906

PHOTO
DILLMAN TOWN, West Coast c1900
(aka Dillmanstown)