Kelly's Creek.

In the earliest days of the West Coast Road, a Mr. Kelly kept a store

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with a conditional license (the license was issued in 1865), at this creek, and the creek shared his name. When the coaches began to run, the store became the Otira Hotel and was a changing house for the coaches. It was always well known for its signboard, which read: “Otira Hotel kept by Kelly, where man and beast may fill their belly.” The hotel was burnt down about 1870, during the tenancy of a man named Joe Pike.