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Ride the Wilderness

West Coast Wilderness Trail Hokitika, Westland, New Zealand

Ride the Wilderness Bike Race West Coast Wilderness Trail Saturday 16 November Enter now at www.ridethewilderness.co.nz 4 Races 126km - Starts at Ross 95km - Starts at Hokitika 59km - Starts at Cowboy Paradise 21km - Starts at Kumara All Finishing at Greymouth Age Group category prizes Spot Prizes Enter now at www.ridethewilderness.co.nz

Salmonella Dub Soundsystem – Hokitika’s Regent Theatre

Hokitika Regent Theatre 23 Weld Street, Hokitika, Westland, New Zealand

LIVE GIG - R18 The Salmonella Dub SoundSystem featuring band originator Andrew aka Dj Rudeboy on the mix ft. Mighty Asterix & Whirimako Black LIVE with the amazing Sal Dub horn section bring the band’s new DOUBLE Digi album FOR ALL THINGS ALIVE in a space weaving 2hr dancefloor journey through Salmonella Dubs basslands. Prepare

EVOLVE Wellbeing Market

Greenstone Retreat Kumara 45 Greenstone Road, Kumara, Westland, New Zealand

EVOLVE  wellbeing market at Greenstone Retreat 10am to 3pm Sunday 24th November 2024 Crystals, soaps, natural remedies, jewelry, art, crafts, vegetables, plants, preserves, clothes, 2nd hand goods, Community, food, workshops, cacao, healers, music & more.

Inchbonnie 90

New Zealand’s first airliner; de Havilland DH83 Fox Moth ZK-ADI. Photo credit: John King Inchbonnie and New Zealand’s first licensed scheduled air service  Inchbonnie will have a national aviation and social focus on 18th December 2024. The small farming settlement, 16km west of the Otira Gorge, was where Captain J.C. ‘Bert’ Mercer of Hokitika-based Air

Jackson Bay Sesquicentennial – Historic Display

Join us to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the settlement of Jackson Bay by learning about the history of early settlement in the area. Katherine 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.

Free

Jackson Bay Sesquicentennial – Plaque Unveiling

Arawata Cemetery 4382 Haast-Jackson Bay Road, Haast, Jackson Bay

Join us to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the settlement of Jackson Bay with an unveiling of a new plaque at the Arawata Cemetery. The plaque has confirmed names and information of people buried within. We then progress to Jackson Bay and meet at the DOC kiosk to reveal the information panel offer 300 names from the firmt ship load of settlers in January 18th, 1875, followed by the new plaque unveiling at Jackson Bay foreshore.

$10

Jackson Bay Sesquicentennial – Celebration Dinner

Haast Heritage Hotel 26 Haast-Jackson Bay Road, Haast, Westland, New Zealand

Join us to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the settlement of Jackson Bay with a celebration dinner at the Heartland Hotel. Period costume is encouraged!

$40