While one of the old huts, known as Rum Currie’s hut, had earlier been restored, the remains of another hut and associated rock-work was yet to be completely uncovered and mapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rum Currie’s hut was originally created by rabbiters from stables built by one of the area’s original settlers, Hughie Harvey, Mrs Stevens explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They converted the stables into a hut by keeping the cobbled floor, along with the lean-to where oats and chaff were stored, then built up the structure with river stone and added a stone chimney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The hut was used by rabbiters until Jack Currie took it over in the 1930s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“He was later known as Rum Currie, due to his drinking habits,” Mrs Stevens added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was sometime after Rum left Gibbston in the 1950s that his hut was restored and it was now used by kayakers and rafters, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rum Currie’s hut is identified as a protected feature and is a Category 1 Heritage Item in the QLDC Partially Operative District Plan and as a Category I building on the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register, so was eligible for the grant from the QLDC, she explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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