BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Cool Little Town - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Cool Little Town
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hokitika.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Cool Little Town
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Pacific/Auckland
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1300
TZOFFSETTO:+1200
TZNAME:NZST
DTSTART:20230401T140000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1200
TZOFFSETTO:+1300
TZNAME:NZDT
DTSTART:20230923T140000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1300
TZOFFSETTO:+1200
TZNAME:NZST
DTSTART:20240406T140000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1200
TZOFFSETTO:+1300
TZNAME:NZDT
DTSTART:20240928T140000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1300
TZOFFSETTO:+1200
TZNAME:NZST
DTSTART:20250405T140000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1200
TZOFFSETTO:+1300
TZNAME:NZDT
DTSTART:20250927T140000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1300
TZOFFSETTO:+1200
TZNAME:NZST
DTSTART:20260404T140000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1200
TZOFFSETTO:+1300
TZNAME:NZDT
DTSTART:20260926T140000
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241204T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250427T163000
DTSTAMP:20260511T083511
CREATED:20241203T053412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T053412Z
UID:6956-1733306400-1745771400@hokitika.org
SUMMARY:Kura Pounamu
DESCRIPTION:Kura Pounamu – Our treasured stone \nFeaturing over 200 taonga pounamu – this exhibition celebrates the timeless beauty and enduring legacy of pounamu – New Zealand greenstone \nOpen Daily at the Hokitika Museum from 4th December 2024 to 27th April 2025\, 10am to 4.30pm
URL:https://hokitika.org/event/kura-pounamu/
LOCATION:hokitika museum\, 17 Hamilton Street\, Hokitika\, Westland\, New Zealand
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hokitika.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Poster-Kura-Pounamu-Facebook-Hei-tiki-1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="hokitika museum":MAILTO:enquiries@hokitikamuseum.nz
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250117T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T083511
CREATED:20240613T013109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240613T013717Z
UID:6739-1737108000-1737306000@hokitika.org
SUMMARY:Jackson Bay Sesquicentennial - Historic Display
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the settlement of Jackson Bay.\nHistoric Display – Friday 17th – Sunday 19th January – 10am – 5pm\n\n\nKathryn Bennie\, the Jackson Bay historian who has done exhaustive and meticulous research over the last 12 to 14 years on these early settlers\, will also host a display in her shed at the Bay from 10am\, Friday-Sunday. This may be of particular interest to those wanting to look back into the early settlement and especially those with ancestors as there are files on all the immigrant families including where many had settled on their selected blocks of land. \n\n\nHistory of Jackson Bay \nJanuary 19th 1875\, was the very first landing of immigrants at Jackson Bay under a Special Settlement Scheme. The government had surveyed a township and farming community in the area\, promising generous land ownership schemes\, on-going employment\, unlimited natural resources to harness\, regular communication\, vital infrastructure and a prosperous future. \nThe reality was vastly different for most\, if not all\, of the settlers\, who in the first year experienced record rainfall with flooding and land slips that accompany these events. They faced erratic employment and communications\, frugal living conditions and exorbitant prices for any food that made its way to the Bay. Attempts at growing crops were thwarted by floods and at the end of the first three years most had left in dribs and drabs until\, in 1879\, a Government Commission of Enquiry was held into the failed settlement. In total there were several hundred settlers that were landed over the course of those years. Most left\, some of them died\, and others endured. \nThe lack of a wharf was a huge nail in the coffin of the settlement as no timber could be milled and sent out and no supplies could be landed regularly or safely. To leave entailed crossing the Arawhata\, Waiatoto\, Okuru\, and Turnbill Rivers following a muddy track to get to Haast as most did not have the money to return to Hokitika by boat. Despite these very inauspicious beginnings a few hardy families remained and carved out a life from the bush and the ocean gradually clearing some land and making a place for themselves in this beautiful but brutal wilderness. Descendants from some of those families still live in this area.
URL:https://hokitika.org/event/jackson-bay-sesquicentennial-historic-display/
LOCATION:Westland
CATEGORIES:150 Years
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hokitika.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/442496366_122128066688255333_6112204256768143862_n.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR