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Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel ReeftonThe Reefton School of Mines 1886Albert Street under flood - Percy K. Wah with bike.. 1936.
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Anyone have any information on Jean Harris 1897 - 1983 ,or James Baker Harris 1892 - 1967.- she owned a pub in Reefton, On the Hokitika river.1863.Longford Boarding House & Post Office.Football Team. 1922.West Coast sea scene.Awakari Stream, Branch of Waitakerie behind Charleston.1913.A rural property near the headwaters, Grey River - near Lake Cristobel.1913.Behind Charleston.1912.Evening coat - 'Geoffrey Madden, Greymouth,(Furrier).Derelict shack, Maruia Springs.2006.Denniston Hockey Team.ca.1920`s.Private David Archibald Cowan , born on 19 February 1895 in Murchison - died on 27 May 1961 in Greymouth.Barnicoat Sketch, Greymouth, Oct 21, 1867.Greymouth DREDGE MAWHERA passing through the DRAW BRIDGE in the Blaketown lagoon. 1960`s.Totara Flat Forest Service staff grading tree seedlings.Otira picTwo mystery photos - women with hockey sticks. *PHOTO ALBUM*Alborn family *PHOTO ALBUM*Lyell Creek cover up job.Westland District War Memorial Hall 2013 demolition, Hokitika, and new RSA *PHOTO ALBUM*Ōkārito harbour reopened - private enterprise creates a new outlet for a wide South Westland area.1937.Draught horses eating while the wagon is halted in the Buller Gorge.1903.A boat and its reflection at Lake Mapourika, South Westland.1939.Coal storage bins at Granity.1912.Coal trucks at the bottom of the Denniston Incline.1912.The top incline of the Westport Coal Company's works at Denniston.1893.Fred Garth,Kevin Molloy, Mick Molloy and Mick Kelly in Waiouru in about 1941.L&M rimu plant built from the ground up *PHOTO ALBUM part 2*L&M rimu plant built from the ground up *PHOTO ALBUM part 1*Recent Strikers - men of the Cascade Section of the Denniston Colliery.1913. A view of the houses, terrain and surrounding hills at Denniston.1938.The top of the Denniston Incline.1910.The coal bins , also the engine room ,from which the trucks on the Denniston incline are worked.1904.ALBUM - Arrival of the EX1800 up at the Rimu L&M workshop .early 90`s.A section of the new road round Lake Brunner.1932.Construction of the road between Hollyford and Okuru.1938.Buller High School - 3 Silver - 1979.Deer Stalkers at Burke Hut on the Haast Track.1935.Deerstalkers ready to leave Hidden Falls Hut in the Lower Hollyford region.1936 ALBUM - REMEMBRANCE SERVICE. 2006,2007 and 2017 - STRONGMAN MINE DISASTER,19 January 1967Newmans Motors Ltd - Athurs Pass,Hokitika, Franz Josef.1928.NEW POST OFFICE OPENED AT GREYMOUTH ON MARCH 13, 1908.Sir Joseph Ward PM ,opening the General Post Office at Greymouth,May 6th,1908.The main street in Kumara, showing the post office (left) and the Court House Hotel (right),ca.1909.Six members of a launch party on the shores of Lake Mapourika.1938. A large serpentine stone sluiced out on the Rimu Claim, near Hokitika.The chute is being coated with quicksilver, which retains the gold while the water and sand pass into the trough,Gillespie's Beach.1930.An early photo of the Greymouth Harriers.ALBUM - Frigate Kaniere visit to Greymouth.ca.1959.Rugby League Team.1977.

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