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Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / 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.
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Arthur's Pass Post Office closure, 1988Reporter Pat Taylor sits writing in floodwatersAlbert Street, Greymouth, after the second, September 1988 floodJones Flat - later renamed Ross.Where Once a Forest Stood - Westland .ca. 1952.West Coast Road - on the Christchurch road 38 mile post.ca.1880.Carte de Visite photo of an unknown shipwreck .ca. 1880`s -1890`s.Difference between the May and September 1988 Greymouth floods Elmer Lane staff when it opened in June 1928 and Elmer Lane locomotive depot ,February 9th 1969Otira.ca.1924.Revel Street looking north, Hokitika.1936.On the Teremakau, West Coast Road.ca.1880`s.Clark Hut, Haast River.Work on a bridge on Haast Road.ca.1964.Lud Mahan - King M. Hut [Haast Hut] .1931.Strongman Mine.ca.1959-1960.Bottom of Denniston Incline.ca.1890`s-1900`sMy Fisken Grandmother holding baby Beattie with Ira Beattie (Publican) at right, and Andrea? Beattie at left.Greymouth.On the Buller River - Matukituki - 1847 with T. Brunner.Sluicing for gold, West Coast - possibly Charleston.F. Wise's store at Kumara.1936.Neil Ensor's driftwood sculptures adorn his home in RossLeague player Mocky Brereton ALBUM - ARTHURS PASS-OTIRA - CHRISTCHURCH - WEST COAST. 1918 and 2018. ALBUM - A couple of Police cars that were damaged at the time of the Inangahua EQ - could of hit slips in the Buller Gorge. 1968.Taupo shipwreck Cobden, Grey River, 1900Plane crash, Franz Josef Glacier, 1950 - wreckage carried by glacier *PHOTO ALBUM*Greymouth and floodwall August 1975St Johns Presbyterian church, Dennehy house and council fountain, Tainui Street GreymouthSluicing on the West Coast.ca.1870`s.Arahura Road Rail bridge *PHOTO ALBUM*GreymouthMillerton - top of the inclineA Sluicing Claim near Westport.1898.Westport Coal Company Incline .1869.Palmerston Street, Westport .ca.1880.Mine closure protest marchUnidentified West Coast town .ca.1875-1890 - Dillmanstown Greymouth.ca.1875-1890.Sluicing on the West Coast. ca.1875-1890.Kumara.ca.1875-1890.Lake Mahinapua near Hokitika ca.1879-1898.Mackay Street, Greymouth, during flood.1936. Hallenstein Brothers Greymouth branch premises on the corner of Albert Street - in flood. 24 June 1905.Forestry workers ,South Westland. Westland Racing Club's midsummer meeting, held at Hokitika on January 5.1914.South Westland bush road.Mr Watkin reading a 1905 comic at his Cobden home.Cobden branch of the Westland Savings Bank replaced by a second mobile branch.View of Granity and Coast Line from Millerton Track.1936.

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