Replacement hut on Hokitika’s Mt Brown

February 2011

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February 2011

The community-built Mt Brown Hut
A community group of 35 volunteers, supported by more than 30 sponsors, has built a new hut on Mt Brown, near Lake Kaniere, Hokitika. Members of the Mt Brown Hut Community Project Team put in over 2000 hours demolishing the previous hut, hand mixing 4.5 tons of concrete for the foundation, rebuilding and painting, installing […]

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