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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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Dobson/Brunnerton Heritage ParkBlackball miner Alex HowdenCharlotte Bufton (1881 - 1966), and her nieces -Cinnie,Mary,Joan and Lizzie.1966.Aorangi Villa, Karangarua.1913.Arnold River Westland near Kaimata Subsidence - After Rain.1939.Fifty vessels in port - Hokitika .1866 .Hokitika Wharf in course of construction.Press photographers up ladders to record procession along Revell Street for Westland Goldfields Jubilee celebration.Dillmans hydro scheme and Greymouth sub station under construction, 1978Gold dredges working at Rimu, Ruatapu .early 1920`s. *PHOTO ALBUM*The Hokitika breakwater, with the larger settlement of Hokitika visible in the background.ca.1900-1916.West Coast Road - On the Christchurch Road between 30 & 40 mile posts.ca.1880Four people with a team of bullocks yoked to a chain, Westland.1890`s-1910`s.Three people on a sandy riverbank with boulders, Westland`.ca.1890`s-1910`s.Seaview Hospital,Hokitika.1914.A family outside their corrugated iron homestead, probably located near Otira.Lake scene, Westland.ca.1890`s -1910`s.Jones' Flat - later renamed Ross.Road through the bush, Westland.Greymouth wharf.ca.1900`s.'Toss Woollaston and Paul. Greymouth. Feb. Mar. 1961'Ngahere road rail bridge after the 1950`s flood.Fletcher's (IPL) timber orderInjured kiwi with vet J MooreFive people outside a lakeside hut , Westland.ca.1900.Five people building a stopbank from river stones and wire, WestlandFour people in a garden, Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann of Hokitika , second from leftPerson standing underneath a cableway, WestlandChildren fishing.No date.Alec Graham, Peter Graham, and three other people at an unidentified hutA woman seated in a small vessel moored on a riverbank.Westland.ca.1890`s -1910`sBush road, Westland.1890`s -1910`s.Two people seated in a horse-drawn cart near a lake, Westland.1890`s-1910`sArthur's Pass police station opening, 1989West Coast lifestyle *PHOTO ALBUM*Historic Jack's Mill School - Constructed between 1938 and 1940 in the small saw-milling settlement of Kotuku.Historic Cedar Flat Hut - Located in Toaroha river valley - Whitcombe River area .Gold sluicing at Dillmanstown..ca.1896.Opening of the Ross Gold Mining Company's hydraulic pumping engine.ca.1882.West Coast Goldmining.No date.Phil Duffy DraperIan Hamlin, artistWaimea, West Coast.ca.1871.Waimea ( Goldsborough ), West Coast. ca.1871.Old Pack Track - WAIMEA ( GOLDSBOROUGH ) WEST COAST.1888.Blackball mine at the time of its closureGlaciers .1930's.Logging protestTwo people traversing glacial ice, Peter Graham at right.Campsite on mountainside,West Coast Region.

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