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)