Thread: Otanetea Hut

I was chatting to an old deer culler tonight and bought some books off him. After chatting a while he went into his garage and dug this out...



It's the old visitors board he rescued from the Otanetea Hut (number 1) which I understand was pulled down and relocated some time in the 70s perhaps? I'm a mainlander so have no knowledge of this part of the country to be honest! He did a few years culling in the late 60s before moving onto other things.

There are a heap of names on here and the old boy was quite excited to point them out and explain who they were. He said he has no son to pass it on to so he gave it to me.

Some notable ones I can see are B Crump and P Holden. I don't know how the photo will come out on here, it's probably not readable...but I'm curious about all these blokes on here. I guess most are long gone now. I promised the old boy I'd keep it and frame it, he was worried it would get destroyed. A lot of names have D.P.F. after them...Department of ?