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 Grey River Argus 2.9.1913 reporting on the usual fortnightly stock sale at Arahura, said prices were up, 16 pounds being paid for a prime heavyweight bullock from Messrs Sullivan Bros, Weheka Station.

Grey River Argus 4.12.1917 - reported on a line of bullocks of exceptional quality sent from here yesterday reared by Mr F. Williams of Weheka and will be sold at Addington tomorrow. They were in both size and quality well above the ordinary prime bullocks.

Grey River Argus - 15.7.1919 report that a fine draft of fat cattle were railed through from Ross yesterday morning, approximately 60 head from the property of F.G. Williams at Weheka, mostly heifers 3 to 4 years old, in excellent condition after their long drive.

Grey River Argus 14.9.20 reported on a Mr Williams of Weheka passing through Hokitika yesterday morning with a line of 440 head of fat cattle for Christchurch.

Cattle droving from further south would shorten with the establishment of stock sales at Whataroa. Eventually they would cease altogether once lorries were used to transport stock to point of sale.

In the 1930s, one large room off the verandah of the homestead of Julia Williams at Weheka was used solely for the storage of household supplies - sacks of flour, sugar and other basic household necessities, all landed down at Bruce Bay. Children were tempted to thieve luxuries such as dates but God help us if we were discovered. Stealing was a mortal sin, and if you died in that state, without confessing, you went, as we were so often reminded by adults, straight to hell. At the far end of the outside rooms along the verandah, one large room had been added to house a full-sized billiard table, and a much-prized grammophone. On the walls of this room were the mounted heads of deer and chamois, valued trophies