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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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First Communion, St Patrick’s Greymouth April 1959 - Boys.Bush Scene , West Coast .Standard 3 and Std 4 , Dobson Primary School .1982.Hawks Crag , Buller Gorge.Display in the Wanganui Museum about Waiuta.A panoramic view of Greymouth.1904.Standard 4, Room 5 - Cobden School .1987 .Old railway carriage found then restored, Moana *PHOTO ALBUM*.2012.Hokitika train station and bridge 1960sSteve Lowe Maurice Buckley's Avro 504K, the Blazing Arrow, at Hokitika... the old abattoir can be seen in the backgroundGrey Valley New Zealand Printed Postcard . 1908.Kūmara Rugby league team .1930.Group of children tin kettling - with Chevrolet Tourer in background. Nob Hill staff houses and boarding house under snow, Waiuta.ca 1920-1933.Franz Josef, Westland, 1980.Centurions and West Coast. mid 50`s.Mcfarlane's HOTEL. Seddon Street, KUMARA. Lost Licence 1951.Standard 4, Cobden School.1976.D W Robertson and Son , Carriers , Reefton.Reefton Rugby Reunion.1986.ALBUM - Any of the history on these huts or if there are more around GoldsboroughWreckage and flood debris in the railway yards - Seddonville, after the 1929 earthquake.The Davis house at Seddonville carried 50 yards by floodwater,after the 1929 earthquakeSalvaging furniture after disastrous floods which followed earthquakes at Seddonville, 1929.A roadman's hut near the Waiho River, with the Southern Alps in the background.1929.Farm near Hokitika - a view showing a fine crop of turnips in the foreground.1921.The 13th A and B West Coast Territorials about to board a train at Arthurs Pass for Christchurch.Sep 1914.Prime Minister William Massey disembarks the train on a rainy day, after travelling through the Otira Tunnel .1923.ALBUM - 250,000,000 DOLLARS from the Government one billion growth fund for economic development.2018. Wainihinihi, Taipo Valley at Andrew Dillon's property: Reg Stuart and Andrew DillonWest Coast Plunket recipe book and household hints *PHOTO ALBUM*Hokitika Municipal Band HallALBUM - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION CASH for COBDEN TOURISM JEWEL.2012.ALBUM - Emily Parfitt (née Hocking ) September 1938 and Emily’s Going Away Outfit.ALBUM - Clark family from Reefton - Mum and Dad`s 25th wedding anniversary .1963 Phyllis May Greenwood married Reginald John Naylor , at the Holy Trinity Church in Greymouth.1944.Hannon and Seddong building, Greymouth's first brick building dating to 1872Very early Greymouth building, now Red BooksVery old/early Greymouth building, Werita Street, 2025 *PHOTO ALBUM*ALBUM - PAROA PLAYCENTRE - Repay Loan to Council.2015Hannah Klempel with three of her children at Jackson Bay .1879 .Post Office, Kumara.ca.1880`s.Rimu - Looking north. THE FITZ AND DELABECHE RANGE, FROM THE TERMINUS OF THE GREAT SOUTH ROAD, WESTLAND.1909.Christchurch-Hokitika Road, near Kelly's Creek, Westland.1903.Auctioneer Bernie Connors of Greymouth disposing of the contents of the Cobden Engineering Co.1964.ALBUM - Karamea sawmill - late 1960's .ALBUM - Kopara sawmill . late 1960's. 100 YEARS RUNANGA MINERS` HALL.2008.After 68 earthquake NZED had to reposition and build 2 new towers either side of the Buller river. 1968-1969.

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