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Albert Street under flood - Percy K. Wah with bike.. 1936.Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel ReeftonThe Reefton School of Mines 1886
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Coast road north of Granity, 1929.Pay-day for the men at Bullock Creek.1936.Making a channel for the diversion of Bullock creek.1936.DENNISTON.1915.Chief Ranger Peter King (right) and Billy Brennan on the Copland Pass, 1960.Harold Newby - second from left. ca.1950.Cobdens first Headmaster, Robert Ray.WEST COAST CIVIL DEFENCE. 2008 - 2019. 10 mile bins on the north side -- Redpaths used the bins and brought their Coal out with the lockie OUR BOYS - concerning the boys of "Otira Line",who have joined the colours,and served and given their lives in the great war.Mary Millicent Winstanley (Millie) (b1897-1993) in her garden at Inangahua Junction behind her shop she had built. Hokitika Volunteer Band .1889 .This photo shows the Grey River in flood, coming over the top of the WharfREWANUI COAL SITE DEVASTATED - LANDSLIDE DESTROYS BUILDINGS. SEPTEMBER 1988.A big pipeline on the Kumara goldfields.1913.ALBUM - MAPOURIKA WRECK.GREYMOUTH.1898.Visitors try their luck at panning for gold at a prospector's claim by the Matakitaki river, near Murchison.1932.Te Kinga railway wagon dumpingMURCHISON, WHERE ALLUVIAL GOLD MINING HAS BEEN CARRIED ON FOR MANY YEARS. 1913.White Star Westport rugby team .ca.1955.The Rimu Gold Dredging Company's large pontoon before being launched in the dam at Hokitika.1921.Two men securing a rope to a car, which is in shallow water, on the road to Punakaiki.1924. Looking across the Grey River to Greymouth.1930.ALBUM - Sharkfishers` camp near Punakaiki.1927-02-03.A member of the Auckland Tramping Club standing on top of a rock stack at Pancake Rocks.Punakaiki.1920 -1939.Unidentified West Coast identity.1920 - 30`s.The church as it was about to be taken down in Waiuta.Form three 1954 - St Marys college for girls . Westport.Greenstone workshop, Hokitika Museum, 1971Woodstock, on the Hokitika River.1921.A view of Hokitika, showing the new railway bridge over the river.1903.Buildings and wharves on the Hokitika River, prior to the Hokitika River Bridge being built in 1905Stratford and Blair, Kaimata Sawmill, 1913. Snowy River logging - the log was cut in half by Don Hartill as the mill never had a top blade.ALBUM - MOODY CREEK COAL MINE. (then and now).ALBUM - The mill at Three Mile Hokitika.ca. 1992.Tainui Street , Greymouth - taken from Cobden Hill.1965.Tony Kokshoorn with Molly Airns celebrating 100 years of the Runanga miners hall. 2008.ALBUM - The old O`Brien Mine - The Old Runanga Mine as it was first called started in 1927 .A group of regular customers at the Golden Eagle Hotel.Greymouth.1966.Irene and Zing Willis - Golden Eagle Hotel,Greymouth.1966.The Murchison Deerstalkers Team. May 1966. School Reunion - Col Watts, Jack Morris, Cliff Turner.May 1966.Hunter and Party coalmine, Rewanui *PHOTO ALBUM*Ruru truck and other old trucks *PHOTO ALBUM*Ferguson's Ross truckGold prospectors outside their home, near Reefton.1924.Catholic and Wesley Church (McDonalds site 2026.)Stockton Childrens Fancy Dress BallGold sluicing claim on the beach at Charleston.1921.

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