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West Coast Express about to depart Christchurch, 20 Mar 1950.Ned Henderson, Bellevue Mine, Eight Mile Coast Road 1950sDorothy Falls, after the big flood.2019.Brunner Rugby League 100 year reunion, Easter 2019.Mrs Dillon and Bert Wilkinson, Taipo Valley,1958. Then and now -2 PHOTOS-Jack Kennedy taxi driver's last dayMary Ann Nye and Richard Vivien - Westland pioneersRapahoe railhead. Dunns Transport unloading into railway trucks. 1950sDunns Transport unloading into railway trucks at Rapahoe.George Town, BullerInangahua Junction relics. -3 PHOTOS-Strongman Miners 1950s.Inverness Street Dunollie 1950s.Map showing road from Springfield to the West Coast, ca 1890.Westport Coal Company card, 1892.Inangahua Earthquake 24 May 1968Buller RFC commemorative cover, 18th April 1994.Westport Rugby Football Club centenary dinner card, 1986.Red Lion Hotel, Hokitika envelope.Hokitika State School Diamond Jubilee envelope.Greymouth Rotary Banner.Greymouth RSA Memorial Club badge.Wood Chopping Greymouth and elsewhereBlackball honey tin from Richard Clark, apiarist.Smith triplets, Westport 1927Runanga League celebrationsQuartzopolis, co-operative craft store, Reefton 1983.Frank and Frances Hoys Golden Wedding Celebration, February 1983.New York Karate Exponent on visit to Reefton, October 1983.Reefton Hospital nurses, 6th August 1988.Axemen at MoonlightSlatey Creek Mill. *PHOTO ALBUM* Mawhera Quay,Greymouth.ca.1900-1910.Runanga womenMillerton Post Office.1950`s.Farm girl in the Kowhiterangi valley,near Hokitika 1935Gold prospector J H Hardie from Hokitika.1935. Richard John Seddon presides over a cabinet which includes Sir Joseph Ward,and Sir William Hall-Jones.1906. World War One soldier Alfred Edward Dreckman, of Hokitika *PHOHO ALBUM*Woodstock School 1966Railway hotel Kumara Junction. 1968.Okarito, 1969.Jacksons Post Office, 1988.NZR East Back Shunt, Conns Creek, 1981.Hokitika road rail bridge, 1975.NZ Forest Service map of Waiuta.Band marching on Broadway, Reefton, date unknown.Frank Mitchell digging coal, date unknown Harold Newby at Greymouth.1942.Malcolm Smith, Ken Meadowcroft and Tubby McGuire off to The Industries Fair, about 1962.

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