Reefton People

These are Peter & Dawn Short, (nee Hinton), with their grandson, August, from Wellington & down for a holiday. They came to see us yesterday, in the rain.

Peter & Dawn lived in Dunedin for 30 years and returned to live in Reefton a couple of years ago.

Dawn's brothers, Gavin and Peter, are two of Reefton's Bearded Miners. The second pic is of our Bearded Miners. Another brother, Tom, who I knew well as a kid, was the Forestry Worker who burnt the Waiuta Poppet Head down in the late 1960's. (The Swine!)

It was an accident really - they were cleaning-up the area, someone set fire to the gorse and a piece of history went up in smoke.