The Theatre Royal 1915 (Manawatu/Wanganui) Raetihi, North Island, New Zealand
By GEO-KINGz on 15-May-15. Waypoint GC5VJNM

As this cache has been out of action for too long, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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TheCur8or
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No finds for over a year and no response from the CO. Needs gone.

Not doing well I'm this village. I don't think its there

DNF searched everywhere I thought would or could be. Might be gone. I see previous comments the same.

Along with all my predecessors, unable to locate. MIA

No cache to be found here.

May be missing. Thx for the city history.

Seems to be missing. Could owner check, please. Thank you.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

This one is a DNF for me today. It looks like some work has been done here lately

rainy and miserable, couldn't find it

DNF for us. After looking with four eyes and only so many places a magnet could be. That made three DNF's in a row. ️

something was going on next door with many people we werent able to make the find

Found it with lem00n

Found this one some time back but just noticed that it hadn't been logged TFTC

Very disappointed to not find this one and feeling a bit silly if it is there. Looked at all the possible places and came away empty handed.

A nice quick walk by. Very few people about @1700 hours on a Monday! Cheers.

A day to get from Whanganui up to National Park. Time to find a few little boxes....

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

After having a bonus freedom camping night at the back of the club, I had to get this one in the morning

Having an early Sunday morning stroll, it was a bit sad looking at all the closed buildings.

1.00pm. An easy find at a quick stop on our way south.
Thank you. David and Noeline.

Nice and quick grabon our way to Wellington. TFTC

Rap gevonden.
Thanks from a Dutch

Op weg naar het restaurant voor ons diner komen we ook nog langs deze.
TFTC.

Nice little stroll for the afternoon. TFTC.

I was staying in Ohakune for a few days and took a quick drive out to Raetihi, finding a few caches in between nasty showers that kept sweeping through. This was a quick easy find after waiting for a shower to clear. TFTC!

We came here as part of a post MEGA caching trip.

I had to venture out wider to get a good view of this lovely building.

Down south after the Mega to find some new areas to cache,

Heading home from Mega in Turangi, a quick stop in a small town I haven't been to since I was a child and our car broke down on the way home to Auckland, not much has changed... A quick find was made here. TFTC

I loved the front windows on the theatre. There seems to be no end of lovely old buildings in Raetihi. TFTC #9334

Awesome ! TFTC !

Found as part of the 2016Mega in Turangi. Geocaching team INTGEO - Indiana Jill, Renelm and Rosmar.
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Nice find with Just-Lookin on the way to the MEGA in Turangi.
Good area to visit and no problem locating the container.
Log was not more than damp and not full but we replaced it.
SL

On my way to the Turangi MEGA with tmann421.
A nice quick find. TFTC

Nice theater. The cache was quickly located. As it was replaced, a bunch of kids came running past, so we pretended to take photos and all whiel they ran past.

Found at 16:04 - #6375 along with Indiana Jill, Rosmar & soStepho . signed as INTGEO(team) to save space and time

TFTC :

For our weekend of MEGA adventures we decided on a name of INT GEO as our team included cachers from USA, Fiji and Denmark with a couple of kiwis making up the balance. From the start we decided on quality not quantity but we wanted to include a mix of cache types to share with our newbie cacher.
We enjoyed two days out and about with good weather, great caches shared with a fun team.
As the kiwis in the team, we were constantly reminded of the amazing scenery that we simply take for granted as we were frequently shown examples of "trees dripping with colour", "lichens growing amongst the volcanic vomit", "picturesque lakeside bays" and "mountains of meringue"......
Thanks for all the COs for sharing with us a fabulous area of NZ.
It was Jill who located this one and staged a photo shoot while completing the find and the logging TFTC.

A quick easy find, but the log is very wet and soggy, and also is full. TFTC

Rotorua to Wanganui.
Todays trip took us through some amazing country with beautiful scenery.
On the way we encounted sunshine, rain & sleet. We found a good variety of caches & hides.
Notmany places you can see a man riding a horse down the main street.
Thanks for placing this cache GEO-KINGz

The big journey is going on. After Thailand, we get to New Zealand. After doing the canoe trip down the Whanganui, we have been brought back to Raetihi. This time I went for this cache and got it.

TFTC

Great little town and history

Very wet, thanks for the history

Cold day for a walk

We continued the walk along the main street to this one.

A few folk searched the large rocks whereas I focussed elsewhere .

Soon had the cache but the log was extremely wet and couldn't sign it.

Found with SimonsenExplorers.

TFTC

Nice little hiding spot!

Coll container

Like many others started on the wrong side of the road thinking the GPS was lying. Quickly found it when we decided to just trust the gps! Great find in my hometown, thanks for bringing me back here

TFTC!

Nice spot

Need my eyes tested almost miss it

Returned to Raetihi to try to have another crack at some caches we were unable to locate some months back.

This one had a full log so I added a slip from my note book.

Log sheet full.

Found with donnacha.o - TFTC!

Quick park and grab, TFTC! (needs new log) R&D

Yay our first one, though there was no more room to write our name and date .

Lovely spot, an early morning find while exploring Raetahi and collecting a few of the local caches while the rest of the family slept in. *TFTC GEO-KINGz, #8702*

Found after a little while.

We are new to geocaching and thought this one was great. Easy to find using gps and imagination.

It was a pleasure to stop in Ratahi again, and admire the elegant buildings from a past era. The Theatre Royal is definitely one of the best in town.

Enjoyed the cache, although started on the wrong side of the road until we looked at the GPS - it shows that assumptions should not be made.

Big rocks took most of attention...wasted a bit of time..GPS knew where it was though...tftc

Taranaki Anniversary weekend and made the most of a fine weather weekend to climb Ruapehu for Santa's Secret cache. Now making my way home but first grab a few high FP geocaches and being a working day for most I can geocache mostly without muggles around.
Nice bit of history. Thanks for bringing me here & TFTC

Thank you for the interesting history lesson and the opportunity to find another cache.

Found thanks. Thanks for the interesting history. Got very excited thinking you were referring to The Africa Queen but realise my mistake. Can it really be the oldest theatre in the Southern Hemisphere - surely something older in Australia, South Africa or South America? Tftc.

On a road trip to Taupo for round the lake relay and stopped to grab a few caches. Only one spot this could be and soon found. Tftc

Found this cache on our wonderful new zealand trip. We had a great time and got many beautiful impressions. Thanks for this cache. P. S. Our log name has been changed in the meantime. In the cache logbook we logged with "denper".

Found on the way from Wanganui to Ohakunewith great spots on the Wanganui River Road and the view to Mount Ruapehu in the end. Thanks

After a day on the old coach road we thought we would hit the Raetihi caches before heading home.

This one however we had to skip. Looked like a busy evening at the nearby club, we didn't believe stealth was going to be viable.

TFTC

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Cruising the area, picking up caches as I go. Nice spot

TFTC

Rained off our intention to bike the Old Coach Road, we decided to recommence our journey southward. First a stop in Raetihi. Still raining but not so that you wouldn't want to get out and find the odd cache or two!
This was a straightforward find in a spot that marks the history of theatre in this small village. Happy to have that insight.
Cache in order; log signed, safely re-hidden just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

All good here, TFTC

Enjoyable find, great cache. TFTC.

TFTC

28 December 2015 16:10. Last one here. It took a bit of looking, but got there! TFTC number 2889.

10.45am - Very quiet here today, wonder what it was like 100 years ago. SLTFTC

Dot Day... A day trip to Wanganui. When Gap (of Fap and Gap) told me he was going to the powerboat races, I knew today's dot would be history...

It's almost a year since our last visit here. When I first saw this town's architecture, I knew it deserved to have caches... We didn't read the description for this one and made a wrong assumption about where it was hidden. After eating up a few minutes, a quick check revealed the cache location. Great to have locals telling the story... TFTC.

Last for this evening without umbrella.

TFTC had a nice lunch here. On our three day trip to Auckland for Christmas. Interesting fact my son found it hard to believe oldest theatre in Southern Hemisphere.

An interesting part of history & a good spot for your first cache.Well done,thankyou.

On a mission to climb Mt Tongariro today, but had time for a few quick stops on the way.
Nice to see some more caches popping up in Raetihi - there's more here than you'd think.
A couple of young muggles had just gone around the corner, so we were able to make a quick grab. TFTC GEO-KINGz

More good history here many thanks

#7293. A park and explore on Seddon Street this afternoon. Interesting history here. GZ was all quiet at this time. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

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Originally thought gpsr was playing tracks on me, decided to follow it and cache was soon in hand, all seemed well and was a quiet experience.
Cheers
~G

Quick grab while explorimg & strolling the length of this cool little town. Enjoyed yummy homemade pies , slices & coffee across the road. TFTC!

neat little cache

A quick find on a rainy afternoon - had fun in the snow this morning - went to grab this and all of a sudden the road was very busy! Tftc

Started looking on the wrong side of the road but found it! TFTC

Found on our way home after a trip up the mountain. TFTC

We were surprised to enjoy so much this little town! TFTC

A twelve and a half hour road trip from New Plymouth down to Whanganui then up to Pipiriki, across to Raetihi then up to Taumarunui, and back to New Plymouth via Piopio. Eighteen caches in all; not a huge number but we were after interesting places to visit rather than lots of finds.

We picked up a few outstanding local caches, then stopped for lunch at a nice little café in Whanganui before carrying on up the closed River Road.

This was number fifteen for the day and a quick find for me to make my sixth. My wife wanted to cross the road to the theatre itself, but I was adamant that we were on the right spot, and a quick glance down proved me right.

Thanks for the cache and the history lesson.

My 91st. Thanks for the history and TFTC.

Sneaky ☺
Thanks for the placement.

After an amazing weekend snowboarding on Mt Ruapehu with friends I left our accommodation after a great breakfast to head back to Auckland. Another quick find today. TFTC

Found this 1 Aug with scuba shandy. Beautiful theatre.

Found last night but didn't have pen, so came back today and logged visit.

Slight detour on way home from a job.
TFTC

Driving from Whanganui home to Auckland via Turangai and Taupo, nice quick find, thanks for bringing me here, what a beautiful theatre.

TFTC

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This is a lovely old Theatre. Reminds me of the local theatre, when I was young. It is sad that these old gems can not fit in the modern world.

As it was an early start. Rotorua to Wellington for the ferry. We started without breakfast and after finding the cache, went to the nearest dairy for a pie or something. The dairy reminded me of the general store, in my home village of Ranui in West Auckland and looked like it was out of the fifties. However, the honourable Chinese owner had EFTPOS and understood my broken Mandarin "thank you".

Thanks GEO-KINGz. Check out our Breakfast series of caches in Rotorua. In particular Bruce's Breakfast, which is a mince pie and a can of "V". Bruce, otherwise known as Davidson Clan. He passed us, going the other way on the Raetihi road. Relocating an old Aunt. So he says.

Really cool, bad day on the mountain so we did some caches. TFTC

Found by team ScubaShandy and friends!