Heartland - Hokitika

Television (Full Length Episode) – 1994

That's 'leverite' ... "leave it right" where you found it.
– Stone carver Ross Crump on the name of the 'valuable' stone Gary McCormick has found

This would be the New Zealand equivalent of the Crown Jewels in here, see this?
– Gary McCormick is sure he has discovered a prime piece of greenstone

There were 600 ladies there and 44 teams, so, we're the fastest growing sport in New Zealand.
– Deirdre Corsan from Hokitika's Marching Grannies team on their recent national meeting in Lower Hutt

I don't understand this, a guy who isn't even here just won all of that...
– Gary McCormick is finding it hard to understand the miners card game 'forty-fives'

Has anyone got a shovel?
– Gary McCormick is inspired to dig for gold after hearing the going price of some coarse gold

Yes, the public perception of the Coast is always quite a debatable issue, the West Coasters tend to have a slightly different view to the rest of New Zealand, and I guess the rest of New Zealand has a slightly different view towards the West Coast. But we do it this way and we believe that...if we keep doing it this way we'll have a good future.
– Bill Clark from Westco Mill talks about the logging industry's new 'sustainable' logging programme on the Coast

Since Rachel's had her baby I'm "Renee". I've gone up!
– Renee (formerly Rene) Jacobs on how supermodel Rachel Hunter influenced her nickname

The blokes didn't come out of the pubs till 11.
– Former band leader Renee Jacobs on why West Coast dances started rather late, at 9pm

From Reefton, down to the Fox, everywhere. I mean....Reefton, Greymouth, Gladstone, Kumara, Hokitika, Whataroa, Harihari, then down to the glacier.
– Renee Jacobs remembers the towns and locations where her old dance band performed

It's got a real air of confidence in the last five or six years, it's...taken off, it really has, we've got the town on a roll and the district on a roll.
– Hokitika Mayor Durham Havill feels very confident about the area in the mid-1990s

Well, I think the West Coast is...a bit Irish. They've got a good Irish tradition here, they like being noticed you know, like standing up and being counted.
– Parent Eileen Wilding on the love of theatre and music in Hokitika and on the Coast

In just 10 months from December 1864 the discovery of gold saw Hokitika grow from a bleak sandspit into a bustling city of 16,000 souls, a sudden upsurge more dramatic they say than the San Francisco gold rush.
– Presenter Gary McCormick on the boom time in the Hokitika district

“So fine a river,” wrote Sherrin in The Press, “its volume equal to the Grey and the Taramakau. The finest timber I have seen anywhere on the coast will be found on the Hokitika. White pine, rimu and miro grow in magnificent proportions. Land, I believe, for agricultural purposes, when once cleared, will there be found that cannot be surpassed.” As a result of his recommendations, The Press went so far as to claim that a town at its mouth would one day become the “capital of the West Coast, if not the Middle Island”.
– Early Pakehā explorer Richard Sherrin's first impressions of the Hokitika River and landscape, NZ Geographic magazine, Issue 129, September 2014