At the Harbour Bar
\JHEN old Auckland pioneers are asked about their early memories of the place, for some reason or other jthey generally begin with the harbour. One remembers seeing boats moored to the veranda of the first waterfront hotel. Another recalls the time when the Waitemata reached as far as the Waverley.
A third takes the water a block or two further up, perhaps even to the City Club in Shortland Street. Successive reminiscences advance up Queen Street like ’the waves of a flowing tide, and each time, you may have noticed, to another hotel. Can there be some connection between the harbour and the bar? My own memories don’t belong to what may be called the whisky and water
school. For we lived at the further end of Epsom, and not even the most accomplished " reminiscer’ er confirmed liar-the terms are sometimes inter-changeable-has ever recorded any tendency on the part of the Manakau, even in the earliest days, to leave its grey home in the west and make its way, sav. to the old Royal Oak. The Manakau was always
content with its own bar-
-(" Auckland in the Good
Old Days." Miss
Cecil
Hull
1YA,. January 19.)
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19420206.2.13.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 137, 6 February 1942, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
200At the Harbour Bar New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 137, 6 February 1942, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in