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Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel ReeftonThe Reefton School of Mines 1886Albert Street under flood - Percy K. Wah with bike.. 1936.Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-
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Tasman Sea Scout cutter built by Reg Skelton returned to family *PHOTO ALBUM*A tie pin from the Criterion Hotel in the 1970s "Those were the days my friends". Railcar. Midland line. Between Cora Lynn and Arthurs Pass. 1978.A party of holiday-makers on the Tasman Glacier, at Christmas.1937. J.D. Pascoe, G.D.T. Hall, J.G. Malcolmson, A.P. Thomson on expedition to unclimbed areas on the Westland side of the Rangitata Divide.1935.William Dennis 'Dinnie' Nolan in a rowboat on Okuru Lagoon, with the Nolan family Farm visible in the background.1941.Hokitika Guardian newspaper linotype machineKaroro brickworks damaged by 'whirlwind', 1967Coast to Coast race moves to Greymouth, 2019 *PHOTO ALBUM*WARO - RAKAU RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB.1971.50 year old pet gecko foundHuge rock on Coast Road, 1968Rewanui mine? Westport Stockton mine trolley-lines near Ngakawau.1921.Female trampers on a wire suspension bridge at Waiho Gorge.1913.Horse-drawn tourist coaches on the road to Arthurs Pass.1913.Road through Arthurs Pass.1913.Trampers on the Franz Josef Glacier. 1913.A woman crossing the Tatare Stream at a campsite near Franz Josef Glacier.ca.1950`s.A party of men and women crossing the Franz Josef Glacier.1947.M V Konui ship in GreymouthWaiho - Weheka Road.1929.Old mail coach outside hotel in Weheka , Fox Glacier - It is still in use.1929.Greymouth, 1937. Guide Harcourt on the edge of a crevasse on Franz Josef Glacier.1928.McCullough's Creek,near Whataroa and Harihari - one of the Hooded streams which had to be forded by the cars.1928. Cars belonging to a party halted on a stretch of road during the return journey to Hokitika.1928.The rock on Franz Josef Glacier from which a flare is fired when a party arrives at 8 p.m. By this signal those at Waiho know that all is well, and flooded streams en route have been negotiated successfully.Two men delivering mails on a horseback from Weheka, in South Westland to Okuru, a distance of 98 miles.Men loading stacks of timber onto bogies at the Ross timber mill .1947.Packhorses take on mail and stores from Mussel Point to Lower Okuru.1936.Andrea Rodger, Miss West Coast, 1970Monk family of Rewanui *PHOTO ALBUM*Bushmen using cables and pulleys attached to a spar tree to load logs onto bogies on tramway tracks for processing at the timber yard at Ross.1947.A bushman attaching chains to secure logs on bogies on tramway tracks for the 14-mile journey back to the mill at Ross.1947.A group at the unveiling of the war and coronation memorial by the Premier, Hokitika, Westland, June 3, 1903ALBUM - Coburn`s Motors . Greymouth.1927 to 1973.Tuna being loaded onto a Greymouth boatOld coalmine, Rewanui *PHOTO ALBUM*Hari Hari house. A group of troopers from the West Coast, South Island on board the troopship 'Britannic' in Wellington Harbour, 1 August 1902Cowper Street house, GreymouthFoundation-Stone Laid For The War Memorial Cenotaph At Greymouth.The Westland war and coronation memorial, unveiled by the Premier at Hokitika, June 3, 1903.A ceremony at the Bridge of Remembrance, Cobden, Greymouth.1925.Agfest moves to Greymouth *PHOTO ALBUM*Ozzie Jackson full time mayor 1975Otira Gorge truck crash, 1978Rewanui October 2026 *PHOTO ALBUM*Fox Hills about 1965. MOW. South Westland gangs recovering one of their own trucks.

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