Commercial Hotel
Mrs Maria Berg took over a single storey, four roomed hotel in the late 1880’s known as The Commercial Hotel. The present 2 storey brick hotel, also called Commercial Hotel was built in 1928 adacent to the single storey hotel. Mrs Berg’s old hotel was used for storing beer and also as staff quarters.
Some of the licensees over the years were:
John Kean 1902; George Admans 1904; Alfred Clark formely of Rhodesia, South Africa 1905; Charles Pratt 1906; Joan Batt 1907; Patrick J O’Connor 1908-199; Mrs Georgina J Hutchison 1913-1914; Offered for sale 14/4/1926 and was purchased for $5,500 by Mr Sargent; Albert Le Feure 1929; William Howard Foote; Ethel Ruby Gillespie 1940; Sarah Elizabeth Jane Wright 1940;
S V Delaney & A L Windram 1940; Delia Ellen Mclntyre & Rita Elizabeth Gould 1943; Alan Reginal Renwick & Francis Henry Clarke 1949; Lydia May Rooney 1949; W L Foote 1951;
More recently were the Hollands in 1963 and in the early 1970’s Betty & Victor Leski, and then Dot Martin & her husband. Ken Knight was followed by Peter & Carol Wyllie. In 2011 Billy Neilson and his wife Jodie togather with Nathan Blackwell took out a partnership on the licence of the hotel. of course “Stumpy” has been a mainstay of the hotel for many years as well.
