Ōtaki Hotels

Print, Photographic2006.073.01
Rangiuru House
Rangiuru House, Ōtaki. Located between Ōtaki River and Rangiuru Stream. Old hotel moved from Manakau by Tudor Atkinson. Set up as a guest house. Resort?!! On the south side of Atkinson Avenue and town side of Rangiuru Stream When the river fl...
Print, Photographic2006.077.01
Family Hotel
Family Hotel. Corner of Matene and Main Streets, Ōtaki...
Print, Photographic2006.283.01
Main Street Ōtaki
Main Street Ōtaki looking west, with family Hotel on the right; Telegraph Hotel - two-storey building in the distance. From the Cyclopedia of New Zealand, page 1089....
Postcard2006.290.01
Mill Road/Main Street Ōtaki, Postcard
Postcard of Mill Road/Main Street Ōtaki looking East, with linesmen working on telegraph lines. Family Hotel on left and Bills & Roxburgh's family store on right. Horsedrawn cart on road behind extension ladder. Photo was taken before 1909....
Print, Photographic2006.296.01
Main Street Ōtaki looking West.
Main Street Ōtaki, looking West from Mill Road down Main Street and intersection with Matene Street. Advertising signs: from left - Harold Cockrell, general storekeeper. Lanchester and Vaughan on top of building with Tea Rooms on verandah. Further...
Print, Photographic2011.075.01
Ōtaki Main Street Parade
A parade of floats coming down Ōtaki's Main Street with spectators looking on. Photo also shows people on horseback and cyclists with their bikes. The Memorial Park and the Family Hotel are clearly visible. The empty section next to the park is the...
Print, Photographic2006.297.01
Main Street Ōtaki, Anzac Day, 1932.
Anzac Day, 1932, looking east down Main Street past Centennial Park , Bright's Ōtaki Theatre and Family Hotel....
Print, Photographic2006.294.01
Main Street Ōtaki
Looking East down Main Street Ōtaki, with Civic Theatre and Family Hotel on the left. From a Postcard....
Menu2021.275.01a

Menu Card for a Complementary dinner held for the All India Hockey Team on Thursday May 30th 1935. The Horowhenua Hockey Association hosted the Event. The menu card has been signed by 13 members the Indian team, as shown in view 2. The event was...
Print, Photographic2006.080.01
Telegraph Hotel
Telegraph Hotel, about 1895. Henry W Sharp (proprietor) with hand on door frame. Tony Lima standing at right of window . Children of proprietor on balcony from left - Edith, Albert, Edward, Mr Unwin (who warked on the Ōtaki Mail and later married...
Print, Photographic2006.079.01
Telegraph Hotel Livery Stables
Telegraph Hotel Livery Stables. From left George Tattersal, Sudlow Cooke, Archie Smith (Grandfather of Marie Burn) ...
Print, Photographic2006.080.02
Telegraph Hotel
Telegraph Hotel, Proprietor J Woods. Note change of building to 2006.080.01....
Print, Photographic2006.285.03
Post Office and Telegraph Hotel, Ōtaki.
Looking past the Post Office and Telegraph Hotel down Rangiuru Road. Taken near the intersection of Main Street, Rangiuru Road, Tasman Road and Te Rauparaha Street....
Print, Photographic2006.282.02
Main Street, Ōtaki 1922
"Mill Road", later named Main Street, taken in 1922, looking west with the Telegraph Hotel at the corner of Main Street and Rangiuru Road. Te Rauparaha Street intersection to the right. Tasman Road leading out ot the beach in the distance. ...
Print, Photographic2006.080.03
Telegraph Hotel
School bus taking children from Ōtaki to Levin, outside Telegraph Hotel. Sign for Harry Arcus's garage....
Print, Photographic2006.080.04
Telegraph Hotel
Telegraph Hotel...
Print, Photographic2006.080.06
Telegraph Hotel
Telegraph Hotel, top end of Rangiuru Road....
Book2012.030.01
Visitors Book
Visitors Book with Marbled Edges from the Telegraph Hotel . Entries cover from 7/12/1977 to 22/2/1992...
Print, Photographic2006.081.01
Jubilee Hotel Hunt Club Meeting
Jubilee Hotel, Hunt club meeting. Gentlemens' Club on right...
Print, Photographic2024.094.18

Wedding party (Palmer - O'Brien) at the Jubilee Hotel, Waerenga Road, Ōtaki...
Print, Photographic2007.006.01
Jubilee Hotel
Jubilee Hotel, Waerenga Road, G. McBeath proprietor....
Wages Records2006.690.001

Section of the wages sheet from the Jubilee Hotel. This 4-page section has 2 pages recording the wages for Ina Holman, housemaid waitress and 2 for Jean Maddock, cook. The tax paid is shown by coloured yellow and green stamps on the right hand si...
Print, Photographic2006.081.02
Jubilee Hotel
Jubilee Hotel, Waerenga Road, Ōtaki See OHJ vol 42 page 25...
Report2022.213.01

Final report, dated June 2022, on archaeological inverstigations and monitoring of the Jubilee Hotel Site, Waerenga Rd, Ōtaki. The report was for Jubilee Hotel Development Ltd and Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga. The author was Mary O'Keeffe...
File, Digital2006.690.001b

Digital photo of a small mustard jar from the Jubilee Hotel, Ōtaki. See page 25, OHJ vol 42...
Cup2022.194.01.

Bespoke Jubilee Hotel Ōtaki cup with underglaze transfer print lettering and black hairline band. UGTP mark underside-GRINDLEY HOTELWARE ENGLAND VITRIFIED. After 1908 (Godden, 1991:293). This cup may have been made prior to the early 1920s, when...
Postcard2006.274.01
Main Street Ōtaki, 1914.
Coloured postcard of Main Street, Ōtaki, looking west from the Ōtaki Mail and Bank of Australasia buildings, Aotaki Street and on the other side the Central Hotel. Postmarked Ōtaki on 26 Nov. 1914. Frank Penn, editor of the Ōtaki Mail, on bic...
Print, Photographic2006.082.01
Central Hotel
Central Hotel. North East corner of Aotaki Street and Main Street. Entry from the Cyclopedia of New Zealand, 1897: "Central Hotel (Hakaraia Te Whena, proprietor), Mill Road, Ōtaki. This hotel, which is of modern construction, was built in 1893. Th...
Print, Photographic2011.029.01
Central Hotel
Central Hotel. Constable Bruce, Steve Box on bike. See OHJ vol 42 page 35...
Print, Photographic2006.082.02
Central Hotel
Central Hotel, morning after the hotel was burned down. See OHJ vol 42 page 35...
Print, Photographic2006.376.01
Cnr Arthur Street & Main Highway.
Ōtaki Railway, corner of Arthur Street and Main Highway....
Photograph2023.226.05

Rex Kerr came to Ōtaki in the mid 1970s to take up the position of principal of Ōtaki College which he held for 21 years. He was very interested in local history and was an active member of the Ōtaki Historical Society. Rex has written several book...
Print, Photographic2009.073.02
1931 Floods
1931 flooding at Ōtaki Railway looking west down Arthur Street. Railway Hotel on the right. Taylor Bros shop is the two storey building...
Print, Photographic2010.036.05
Flooding at Ōtaki Railway
Photo taken in the vicinity of the Railway Hotel, Ōtaki, showing flooding along Arthur Street and the Main Highway. The verandah of the hotel can be seen in the foreground and Taylor Bros shop in the background. There is extensive surface flooding an...
Print, Photographic2023.061.01

Photograph showing Ōtaki Railway Hotel, Railway Butchery and Wylie's Bookshop in the eastern end of Arthur Street, railway station in the distance....
Print, Photographic2006.675.001

Photograph of the Railway Station, Old Hall and Theatre, Railway Hotel. Photographed in 2003....

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