Hollywood a landowner in the area . . .
Re: Hollywood Bridge. Hollywood was a landowner in the area in the early 1900s . He also owned a farm on the Pipiwhakao Road at Patutahi which was purchased from him by my grandfather in 1916. Bob Burgess
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