Westport - Bugger! Another ghost town in the making

[98tls]

Not as a pub I don't think, it was for a time reopened as one and spruced up as a pub campgrounds Café it might still be a café or for the rafting company I don't often go that way though.
They had a loan from the Development trust but went under at one stage.
The Jacksons Pub is open again and has been all done up.

Cheers mate,when i was a young fella mums sister owned Mcmanus Hotel (spelling) up the north end though its well different these days.Ive a pic in the lounge of W.Nahrs Westport brewery which was the first privately owned setup over there,ive a bottle somewhere pale ale or similar,bloke owned a couple of pubs and the brewery,the old girl has a photo of his funeral procession down the main street of Westport,big event in which everyone got the day off work.When over there awhile back i hunted out his grave at from memory Sergeants hill cemetery,huge great headstone etc though sadly neglected considering how many Nahrs still live there.

[eldog]

Its a bit backwards granted, but hello 1987...........
It was slightly more right wing than Genghis Kahn, but it was the Labour Party.
I have never really figured out how Rodger Douglas, Richard Prebble, Ken Shirley David Caygill got into the Labour party though.

you might have to go back to the late '60s and early 70's to see, university graduates?

Who knows what would have happened if Kirk had not passed away. Politically it would have been fun times. Were would be now if we had compulsory saving scheme from back then?

This is KB so not the place I guess?

If you go back to the 20-80's quite often plans were made with the general interest of the small developing country at heart, who has to rely on mostly a rural economy to survive.

You can see that quite often in the electricity side of things.

Money has always been the restraining device.

NZders certainly punch above their weight on the global scheme of things.