And Another One!

The lady in the centre is Mrs. Jacqueline Evans, nee Taft. She used to live on the outskirts of waiuta - up on the Prohibition Road, next-door to Tim White's familly. In later years she also lived in Reefton and now is in Hokitika. Very cool.



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Another Waiuta Girl

The lady in the blue top is Mrs. Rosina Caldana, nee Rubbo. She brought her daughter, son in law and Aussie grandchildren to see us today.

Rosina was born in Italy, and her parents brought her to NZ in 1935. Her father worked on the gold dredge at Hukawai, down in the valley behind Waiuta, so she had to stay up in Waiuta, for school, from Monday to Friday & only went home on weekends.

During the week, she boarded at Ronchi's - they had the butcher's shop in Waiuta.

We just never know who we're going to see next! Very cool.

Actually, there were quite a few Italian miners in Waiuta, and some of them were homebrewers. Being Italian and fond of their wine, they brought out a special type of blackberry and grew them for winemaking. There are still remnants of the 'Italian Blackberries' growing in Waiuta today.

Maybe i should grow some?



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Reefton People

There are Frank, Robin and Ramona Waghorn of Reefton who came to visit yesterday.

Frank was in the Reefton Volunteer Fire Brigade for something like 40 years; so he has seen a lot of Reefton's history go up in smoke. I said to him that the New Commercial Hotel fire in 1968 was so fierce that it set fire to Cross' 4 Square across the road, but the brigade saved the Hotel Reefton right next to it.

He replied, "Too bloody right we did - bad enough losing one pub!"




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Hello Helen

A Little Person in Little Earth.

Shame they missed the shot where she was giving the fingers to the camera.




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With Apologies to Sesame Street

"One of these huts is not like the others,
One of these huts is not the same,
One of these huts is not like the others,
See if you can guess which one"

Did i mention that i HATE bluddy boggery winds!




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Quick Post

These are about 1/2 of a group of Japanese people who visited us late today.

Notice that in one photo the wall lamp is not going - the lady in the corner had just turned out the room-lights to get another look at the lights inside the buildings; so, that pic was taken in the dark. These digital cameras are Way clever!




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