Comments on: If these walls could talk… deer culler huts tell tales of our past

By: smankelowdoc

smankelowdoc — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:54:31 +0000

Looks like a great read. Perhaps we should suggest DOC puts one in every hut!

By: Charlie Douglas.

Charlie Douglas. — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:51:29 +0000

I was employed in the winter 1941 on the Landsbrough track and our base hut was the origonal log cabin. The historic hut ,two public works huts joined joined must have been after 1941, at that time the Public Works huts were still near Gates of Hast. at top of Pass. There were a team of about 8 or so for the winter season. I have a couple of old snaps of the gang,

By: izogi

izogi — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:56:07 +0000

Oops. I meant to link to this review (silly me).

By: izogi

izogi — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:37:47 +0000

Thanks fro the write-up. For anyone who's not been in bookshops lately, Mark Pickering's 'Huts: Untold Stories from Back-country New Zealand' is a wonderful resource for stories of how, where and why huts have come from in the New Zealand culture. (I put up a bit of a review over here some time back, and there are others around.) "The back-country of New Zealand contains about 1400 huts" I remember some of the older (but still relatively recent) DoC literature and signage referred to "more than 1000" huts, and in most places that's since been reduced to about "950". Presumably with the 1400 figure, you're referring to private huts as well as those managed by or otherwise somehow affiliated with DoC, right?