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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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Sarah Ann Havill (nee Ralph)Cyclone Ita - Hokitika fire chief Harry Collett recognisedBlackwater School restoration 2026 *PHOTO ALBUMCyclone Ita - Chief Fire Officer Rob Lunn recognisedWorkers crossing a makeshift bridge - on the constuction of the Hollyford-Okuru road. 1939.Road workers constructing the Hollyford-Okuru road.1939.Where the ocean beach is used as a highway in the far south of Westland province, 1932.Timber-mill yards at Bruce Bay.1937.THE PREMIER'S TOUR OF WESTLAND, N.Z. - MR. SEDDON AND PARTY MAKING THE ASCENT OF THE FAMOUS FRANZ JOSEF GLACIER A group at the unveiling of the war and Coronation memorial by the Premier, Hokitika, June 3, 1903MR. SEDDON ADDRESSING THE ASSEMBLAGE AT THE UNVEILING OF THE TROOPERS MEMORIAL, VICTORIA SQUARE, WESTPORT, JANUARY 20, 1906OTIRA TUNNEL COLLAPSE *PHOTO ALBUM*Holiday road trip enroute to West Coast - camping by the Waimakariri.1931Two women on the track to Lake Matheson .1931.RICHMOND QUAY HISTORY. *PHOTO ALBUM*Greymouth Town Square construction *PHOTO ALBUM*Letter from WW1 to Greymouth Evening Star, 1918 from Charles HoodTwo men driving the horse cart with a load crossing a river in South Westland.1933. A man holding a puppy in one hand and airmail in the other - Arrivals at Haast on a South Westland Air Service airplane.1936.Men using a crosscut saw to fell a tree near Ross.1947.Queen Elizabeth II, waving from Revington's balcony, 1954. A view of the Big River Goldmining Company's battery and cyanide plant, near Reefton.1910.A GOLD PROSPECTOR ON THE SOUTH ISLAND WEST COAST. 1912.Two miners on site where the Homer Gold Mine battery adjoins the Blackwater Mine.Waiuta. 1934.The furnace for retorting the amalgam to secure the pure gold - Blackwater mine, Waiuta.1933.ALBUM - Hokitika Municipal Band photo in Band Room Camp St ,Hokitika.Greymouth Post Office opening with Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward, 1908A prospector outside his log cabin with his red deer skins drying, at the Golden Hope settlement, Murchison district.1933.Prospectors from the upper Matakitaki River district can be seen packing stores into their camp at Burn Creek.1933.A new arrival being welcomed at Burn Creek Goldminers camp about 40 miles from Murchison.1933.Blackwater miners resume work after a strike lasting thirteen weeks.June 1934.A woman hangs out washing even though the ground was covered in snow.1931.Gold prospector wearing a suit and hat and seated outside his house, The Mangles, Murchison.1923.1906--2006. RUNANGA--DUNOLLIE, DISTRICT and SCHOOLS. CENTENNIAL.Train crash Otira, 1980 *PHOTO ALBUM*IMPERIAL HOTEL. Corner of Boundary Street and Richmond Quay. *PHOTO ALBUM*NZR Kp 970 STEAM TRAIN. ARTHURS PASS.An Ab is dragging a train south out of Greymouth Station heading towards HokitikaJourneying down the Haast River with a pack train during a trip to the West Coast.A tributary of the Buller River near its outlet at Lake Rotoiti.1938.Sluicing for gold, Greenstone Creek, 1932. The bridge over the outlet of Lake Kanieri .1922.Official Opening. WEST COAST WILDERNESS TRAIL. Kumara-Hokitika section. PICNICKING ON A WET DAY AT LAKE KANIERI.1910.ALBUM - Pages from Hokitika District High School journal,"The Victorian", from December 1939. ABEL TASMAN SHIPWRECK. Cobden Tiphead. 1936.OFFICIAL OPENING. WEST COAST WILDERNESS TRAIL. Greymouth-Kumara section.One passenger killed and nine others injured in railcar smash near Hokitika.1937.Official opening of new timber mill at Bruce Bay.1935.A coastal trader on the waterfront at Okuru Harbour, Westland.1922.

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