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The 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 ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel Reefton
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Newspaper linotype, 1986Hokitika Dramatic Society, 1989Lake Kaniere Scenic Triathlon, 1990Coal Wagons on Greymouth wharf, 1950sA late snowfall at Black's Point, near Reefton,1913.Interior view of the Progress Battery at Reefton, showing 60 heads of stampers at work, July, 1909John (top Cat) Low - Scoring another one for Runanga. ca. 1968.Wildfoods Festival 1990Reunion of old schoolmates at the Reefton District High School 60th anniversary.1939,Westland Racing Club would be 160 this year - West Coast Times article and photo of former committee member Trevor GrowcottMr James Roxborough - Proprietor of the Railway Hotel, Reefton.1904.Stag caused helicopter crash, 1980Runanga player John LowBusch and Morel Homesteads, Murchison Earthquake, 1929.Wildflowers on the roadside near Murchison, the Clarks' Holden stationwagon parked in the road.1967.Gold miners' huts at Murchison.ca. 1920-1929.The camp at Murchison where refugees were accommodated when their houses became unsafe due to the Murchison Earthquake.1929.Fishing vessel FV Wanaka *PHOTO ALBUM*SERGEANT ROBERT HENRY HALLIGAN, DCM, MMGreymouth aquatic centre war memorial Railcar leaving Springfield for Greymouth.1978.Lyell, a well known West Coast gold mining township.1906. Stavill and party sluicing, Kanieri Road.1895. A young gold-seeker on Hunt's beach , Karangarua - shifting to a new claim.1933.Mother and children help transport the family's gold-separating equipment along the beach near Bruce Bay.1933.Wealth of Nations mine share certificatePotential rail routes around Lake BrunnerTransfer from a beer flagon advertising Pines Tavern, Westport, probably 1960s. West Coast rugby league legend Tony CollMorris Nuffield West Coast Motors, GreymouthFishing boat FV Alfred 24/9/94. Cook CanyonViolet Myrtle Sharp, Waiuta 1916 - 1994 wife of Terrance Arthur Thomas Hutchins, daughter of Charlotte Myrtle Magee and Albert Bamfield SharpBetty Samson 1921-2004 and husband George Ernest James Magee 1922.Arthurs Pass, West Coast Road.ca.1880.Great white shark caught off Hokitika, 1977Dulcie Stapleton, born Reefton ALBUM - Monteith's label, bottled by John Darwell at the Union Hotel, Greymouth.ca.1930`s.European Hotel, Charleston, 1967Cobden quarry and trainThe Matakitaki Valley, Murchison District, where State Forestry employees culled deer.ca.1930`s.Westland Scout Group Contingent ,at Auckland Pan Pacfic Jamboree. 1959.Rams and ewes toilets, CharlestonCharleston Cavern opening, 1991Charleston logging protestRoyal Mail Tavern, Woodstock, 1993Westport Harbour.ca,1900`s.Dredging on the Buller.Gladstone Street , Westport.1868.Dobson/Brunnerton Heritage ParkBlackball miner Alex Howden

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