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Biography: Hutchins, Leslie

Deep Cove

Photograph of a remote, forested, mountainous location beside a body of water. A single storey building stands beside the water, and there’s a small ship moored nearby.

Les Hutchins’ lodge and launch Constance in Deep Cove, Dusky Sound, key components of his early Fiordland tourism operation.

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Margaret McClure. 'Hutchins, Leslie', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47652/deep-cove (accessed 25 June 2026).