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Albert Street under flood. 1936.Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel ReeftonThe Reefton School of Mines 1886Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.
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West Coast coal miners - Who are they? 1971. -ALBUM-Mokihinui River .1904.Who is this young lady?Runanga Rugby League Team.1969-1970.Rata Opencast Mine, Charleston 1946--4 photosWedding cars at the Baptist Church, Greymouth.1960.Mokihinui Gorge. Seddonville . No. 1, from above state mine. 1903.Mokihinui Gorge. Railway tunnel with jigger. Between St. Helens and Seddonville. 1903.Railway station at Mokihinui,Buller. ca.1920`s.Barrytown kids 1952.One of the 2 houses on the Rapahoe Straight.Hec Gibson with shark he caught at Point Elizabeth.Cobden School Reunion 90th anniversary 1958.Shackley Carriers, Runanga 1920sProspector at the door of his hut in the Westland - 1936.Coburn Family, Greymouth.ca.1888.Alf Filer , Noel Smythe, Jim Stewart and Chic Robertson,Denniston.1961.Miners down a coal shaft.ca.1903.Charming Creek Coal miners demonstration, Patterson Park, Westport.ca.1930.Floodwaters, Greymouth, Albion Hotel on the right. 1905.Snowflake Icecream Advertisement.1960s. Golden Eagle Senior Reserve League Team, Greymouth.1986.Otira Gorge Road.Pit pony stables, Rewanui.Runanga Convent School Music Students 11 May 1921.Std 1 and 2 Runanga School 1915.Blerta.. touring the Coast.ca.1971. - 2 PHOTOS -Primer 3 Runanga School 1915.Mystery Photo. Does anyone recognize the young lady in this James Ring photo.S.S Mapourika crossing the Grey bar . 1905.View of Greymouth across the river.Greenhills Transport.Slip at Twelve Mile, Coast Road. Does anyone recognise the young ladies in this James Ring photo.ca.1900`s.Coal bins at the Ten Mile, Coast Road.Westport Carnival, 1910.Mystery Photo. Does anyone recognise the boys in this James Ring photo.ca.1900`s.The flooding of Weld, Tancred and Hamilton Street, Hokitika,February, 1935The Westland County Council Road construction gang.Cascade Valley.1979.Runanga Marching Girls.Wildfoods festival at Cass Square,Hokitika.Jimmy Prescott Memorial Indoor Bowls Tournament, Runanga 1964. -2 PHOTOS-A couple of Greenhill workers.Greenhills after wheel came off at Coal Creek. 1960`s.Mystery Photo - James Ring.A view of the Denniston Incline. ca.1900-09.Houses at Ross, 1973.Greenhills runaway truck accident.Early Blackball.Possibly a Runanga Bowling Club 1940's.

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