Whose history it is?

Today we had a local expert come in and share his experience in building and about the local area.

Dick Cotter arrived in Hawea Flat in 1955. He had 6 children who all went to our school. At that time there were only 2 teachers. The old school building was demolished and then some of the current buildings were built by the school board when they were here.

He built the school house, the school 'baths' and the school dental clinic (before it was moved to Wanaka Primary School). He has seen the Hawea Flat Community Hall and the dam being built, the windmill at windmill corner when it worked, and had family who worked at the post office and the four square.