Hamers Flat

Derelict hut from the days when gold miners walked & stock were driven from Canterbury through the Amuri Pass and down to the once thriving gold mining town of Ahaura. Pryce Hamer had a farm on the flat that bears his name in the early 1900's but there was occupation there pre 1900. There was once an impressive swing bridge for stock crossing the Ahaura River just below the flat at Starvation Point but it was pulled down in DOC times as they considered it unsafe.