Friday, March 28, 2014
Horowhenua Chronicle
17
Fabulous Foxton LOOKING BACK
Hotels have been integral part of Foxton Foxton historian Tony Hunt concludes his series on public houses in Foxton. Mr T U Cook first made his mark in Foxton in 1855 having the first wharf built there to commence trading activities. His original wharf further upstream at Paiaka was severely damaged in the Wellington earthquake of the same year. By 1856 his new trading post included the Adelaide Hotel, which later moved to Main Street to become the Family Hotel. Cook’s first competition came around 1866 with the opening of the White Hart Hotel. It stood on the corner of Avenue Road and Hall Street, now the site of the Manawatu Hotel. James Whyte was ‘mine host’ at the Avenue Road establishment before building another hotel on the corner of Main and what became Whyte Street, in 1876. George Gray set up the
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MAIN ST 2013: The Foxton Hotel, left, and the dome of Whytes Hotel can be seen top right, as they were almost a century ago. PHOTO: FRANKIE WEBB Post Office Hotel in 1894. It is the only hotel in Foxton that remains in its original form.
The original Manawatu and Whytes Hotels met their end (as did many other wooden build-
ings in the town) through fire. The Manawatu had to be rebuilt in 1900 after its inferno and
Whytes in 1918. In 1892-93 the original Foxton Family Hotel was demolished by the new owners, the T G McCarthy Trust and the two-story section of the present hotel was constructed. The Manawatu, Post Office and Foxton Hotels had single storey bar additions to them in the 1950s, which extended them to their present day size. After it’s rebuild, Whytes Hotel was expanded to include the upper story of the Moutoa Building that stood next to it which provided the guest rooms for the hotel. The owners at the time of the rebuild renamed the Whytes as the Easton Hotel but this name never caught on with the locals and it remained Whytes until 2001 when most of it was demolished to enable the building of Foxton New World. The new building was designed around the brick hotel facade which ensured the historic significance on Main Street was maintained.
Collated assessment database to benefit rest home residents By FRANKIE WEBB Lonsdale Total Care Centre in Foxton and Foxton Beach’s Riverside Lodge rest home have rolled on to (interRAI) a new computerised residents information system.
With the support of MidCentral District Health Board, they have come on-board as part of a nationwide move to improve the assessment experience for older people. The interRAI system helps to provide detailed statistical
St John call for help Foxton St John are desperately short of volunteers. ‘‘We are actively seeking volunteers to enable double crewing of Ambulances,’’ said St John Horowhenua manager Jude Parke. ‘‘The focus on this is to obtain crew safety as well as providing definitive patient care.’’ A recruitment campaign is being supported by the Emergency Management committee who recognise Foxton is in a desperate situation. ‘‘We are desperately short in Foxton,’’ Ms Parke said. For information contact Jude Park, St John Horowhenua Territory manager phone 027 839-9445 or email jude.parke@stjohn.org.nz
information about the needs of residents which means quicker decisions can be made by all clinicians involved in a person’s care. This will result in the reduction for older people to be over-assessed as they progress
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