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Wilsons / 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-Oddfellows Hall Reefton
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Two people traversing glacial ice, Peter Graham at right.Campsite on mountainside,West Coast Region.Six people on a picnic, West Coast.Horse-drawn carriage in small settlement (Bealey) West Coast.Car at Lake Paringa.1980.South Westland - Waiho Gorge.No date.Grey River near Brunnerton.Elevated view of Greymouth, 1930sWest Coast Under 15 Rugby League Rep. Team NZ TournamentRunanga rugby league players F Taylor and P Manderson, 1954Men sluicing for gold in a pit near Westport.1898.Waiuta mine.1936.Hydraulic gold mining, Ross.ca.1882.In the Otira Gorge, Westland, looking up.ca.1868-1898.Dockside view showing a small vessel (possibly the Greymouth tug Westland) docked alongside a wharf.ca.1900-1916.Water Race,Okarito with Mt Cook in background.ca.1868-69."Rugged conditions, even for four-wheel-drive vehicles, near Grave Creek, in the last four-mile contract on the Haast route." 1965.Aorangi Forest Industries millOmoto slip, 1984Ashley Motor Inn fire 1984Bealey Bridge opening, September 12, 1936The Topp and Bone families at Mai MaiHallensteins branch premises, The Bristol, and Prestons, Hokitika.ca.1950`s.Hokitika Sample Room, Sargood Son & Ewen.1936.Hokitika, with snowy mountains in distance.Greymouth Trotting Club hotelware or badgeware dinner plateGreeting card from Denniston.ca.1890-1910.'Denniston Track. First View of Denniston'.1936.'Millerton...The Track'.1936.Taylorville.1927.Governor General Sir Jerry Mataparae and wife Lady Janine with Greymouth Mayor Tony Kokshoorn and wife Lynne, laying a wreath at the Miners` memorial. 2016ALBUM - Greymouth .1950`s.Canterbury Apparel's Greymouth factoryIce Peaks, Franz Josef Glacier, Westland, N.Z.Hope Crossing, Westland.South Westland.ca.1935.Fairlies Fruit and Veg shop, GreymouthThis lockey is possibly one of Nyberg's of Ruru. ca.1905.McDonald & Rowley's store at Millerton.1936. Lainye Creek. R. D. Reefton. Feb. 1984.Wills Limited store at Reefton.1936.Road washout near Waiho Gorge.Feb 1931.Cook's River Road , WAIHO.View over Greymouth, looking westLake Brunner , Moana.Bullets in police car after Threadneedle Street shootingShantytown sawmill opening 1987Death of Kiwis Mocky Brereton and Jim FisherArthur's Pass Post Office closure, 1988Reporter Pat Taylor sits writing in floodwaters

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