Last updated: 2 June 2009
Pearns Hotel, Kumara
What is it?
Title:
Pearns Hotel, Kumara
Creator:
Pearns Hotel, Kumara
Held at:
Level of description:
Collection
Extent:
10 cm
Reference number:
Arch 87
Former NRAM reference number:
Y177
Description:
The records consist of one Cash Book and two oral history tapes, the tapes dating from 1990. The Cash Book is a bound photocopy, which also has diary entries.
Charlotte Mary Josephine Lewis, nee McGill, came to Hokitika about 1900 and worked at Pearns Hotel until her marriage to David Lewis. After her husband's death ten years later she bought the Hotel and ran it from 1917 until 1931, when the family moved to the Recreation Hotel in Greymouth, taking the original cash book with them. From about 1932, the diary entries are made by Mrs. Lewis' daughter, Maureen.
The cassettes record Brian Michael Fitzgerald, Mrs. Lewis' great-grandson, talking about Kumara, the Lewis family and others.
Records
Dates covered:
1917 - 1936
Access conditions:
Not restricted
Format if not original:
Photocopied
Location of original:
In private hands (cash book)
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Grey District · Westland District
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