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Wilsons / Harris' Hotel ReeftonThe 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 Reefton
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Karamea Post Office protesters outside the building they have occupied since New Zealand Post closed it on February 5, 1988Mr Bill Simpson, a Karamea dairy farmer, boasts the brightest cowshed in the district Article image Award winning dairy farmers Dianne and Wayne Yates, of Karamea.Railway Tavern Waimangaroa *PHOTO ALBUM*121 Shakespeare Street GreymouthWest Coast Rep Team from 1990Lady Anna Shipwreck, Greymouth, 2013 *PHOTO ALBUM*October 1891 surveyor's drawing shows the Moana Railway Station and Line format.Morris ancestors taken in Taylorville - outside the Morris family home in Nile Street ca.1900-1905. A Public Works department truck fording the lower reaches of the Cook River with provisions. 1930.Men loading the day's collection of logs onto tramway trucks in the felling area, from where they were hauled 14 miles back to the mill at Ross.1947. Ralph Croawell watching the deer stalkers' by Mr E. R. Williams, Westport, took second place in the Child Figure Study class.1936.Peace Day Ceremony .1919. Johnny Walker and Ron Gibb at the Memorial stone for those killed in the Strongman Mine explosion 1967. Mr J. Martini, of Harihari, with two bottles of water taken from a natural hot spring near the Wanganui River, 1970One Of The Dominion's Great Coal Ports - Greymouth.1912.Greymouth - a West Coast seaport and coalmining centre.1902.THE OLD AERIAL TRAMLINE FOR CONVEYING COAL FROM THE MINES AT BLACKBALL.1910. Gillespies beach - The chute is coated with quicksand which retains the gold, while the water and sand passes into the trough.1930.Cleaning and blowing gold at the Rimu claim.1926.Looking south west across the mining township of Waiuta.ca.1930`s.150 YEARS of WESTLANDFletchers mill workers, Karamea. Late 1960.Logging trucks Oparara valley road near Karamea . late 1960`s.Repairs to the Waitangi-taona River bridge, near Whataroa, 1982Earthquake damage, Little Wanganui. Karamea.1929 .Karamea hotel during the 1973 floodWest Coast guide, Mr A. Graham, with his horses on the Waiho-Weheka forest route in Westland.1929. Trampers resting in the bush on the way to the Franz Josef Glacier.1929.Mapourika wrecked on the Cobden TipheadFlax weaving, 1990Whataroa timber workers 1995The Vice-Regal party's visit to the Pancake rocks at Punakaiki.1925.Punakaiki photographed from along the Greymouth-Westport road.1934.Charlotte Myrtle Sharp (Magee) and her son Elvin Bamfield Wilder Sharp , and his sister Violet Myrtle Hutchins (Sharp) . 1935 Reefton - Wallace Herbert McAlpine, Violet May Collis, Greta Frances Magee 1912-1988 Magee Sisters, Vera Susan Jones , Charlotte Myrtle Sharp , Grace Victoria Jane Collis.ca.1960`s. Runanga or Dunollie ? - maybe someone recognises the streets.Mil Mi-17 helicopterKiwi Spencer DunnJohn Hotop bulldozing a bush clad spur - Haast Highway construction.1964.Eddie Edwards, John Armstrong (Foreman), Peter O`Connell having smoko.Haast Highway construction.1964.CHARMINGTOWN ( ?) , NEAR STOCKTON, WHERE A RICH NEW SEAM HAS BEEN LOCATED.1911.Prince William, Mayor Tony Kokshoorn and Prime Minister John Key.Old canoe presented to Blacks Point Museum, 1972Reefton flood 1974Newspaper linotype, 1986Hokitika Dramatic Society, 1989Lake Kaniere Scenic Triathlon, 1990Coal Wagons on Greymouth wharf, 1950s

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