Hunterville now has a shiny town hall of which it can be proud.
The Hunterville Town Hall has been renovated over the last three years by voluntary labour and through community grants.
The hall, built in 1929, was badly neglected about five years ago and, fearing it would be left to "sit there and rot", locals formed a hall committee to resurrect the public building.
"We'd got one going with the swimming baths and it worked really well," said committee member Don Hatfull. "For about the first two years nothing really happened. We sort of tried to get it off the ground."
But during the past three years the "unusable" toilets had been revamped, the hall had been rewired and painted inside and out, it had been given a new roof, its floors were polished and now it boasted new chairs and tables.