Lester Rowntree bought the entire West Coast town of Otira earlier this year - including the hotel, hall, fire station and 14 houses on 20 hectares of leasehold land. This week they celebrated the 200th Anniversary of the Horse in New Zealand and Lester's invited the whole town for Christmas dinner to the Otira Stagecoach Hotel.
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