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Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.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.
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Tainui Street , Greymouth - taken from Cobden Hill.1965.Tony Kokshoorn with Molly Airns celebrating 100 years of the Runanga miners hall. 2008.ALBUM - The old O`Brien Mine - The Old Runanga Mine as it was first called started in 1927 .A group of regular customers at the Golden Eagle Hotel.Greymouth.1966.Irene and Zing Willis - Golden Eagle Hotel,Greymouth.1966.The Murchison Deerstalkers Team. May 1966. School Reunion - Col Watts, Jack Morris, Cliff Turner.May 1966.Hunter and Party coalmine, Rewanui *PHOTO ALBUM*Ruru truck and other old trucks *PHOTO ALBUM*Ferguson's Ross truckGold prospectors outside their home, near Reefton.1924.Catholic and Wesley Church (McDonalds site 2026.)Stockton Childrens Fancy Dress BallGold sluicing claim on the beach at Charleston.1921.A West Coast creek between Cape Foulwind and Charleston.1902.Miss Bell's Log Cabin at Maruia River, in 1981 *PHOTO ALBUM*Fishing trip up the Kopara - Bob Tomlinson of Cobden,Ned Byrne of Waimanga,Arty Gill and Si Avery of Blaketown.early 1930`s.Arthur Foster of Matai, Tex Egan of Haupiri,Archie Christy of Moonlight,Duncan Hardie of Greymouth.Moonlight Centennial.1865 - 1965. Meikles Hut and History of Moonlight. Steam dredge at Camerons near Greymouth.1935.ALBUM - Men working on the gold sluicing claim at Barrytown Flat, Greymouth.1939.Logging natives on the Mitchells Rd for TimberlandsGreymouth Floods - Mackay and Boundary Streets.GREYMOUTH.Harding Clan around 1920 - Whitebaiting on the agenda.Hokitka. A dozer on Croft's truck crossing what looks like the Arahura bridge.Berthing the S.S. Mernoo at Greymouth - The Mernoo is the largest vessel to visit the port.1930.The Westland Shipping Company's steamer Tees ,crossing the Greymouth Bar after being delayed in port for a week by continuous heavy weather.1930-07-09.Danny Spark, Greymouth Athletics Club, obituaryMolloy's GMC truck with a big log or twoBrowns Creek Sawmill Ikamatua truck Bulldozer at work, Jacobs River.1938.Whymper Glacier - Headwaters of the Whataroa river.1939.J C Gillman trucks *PHOTO ALBUM*Sailing ships, port of Greymouth, 1880sGreymouth aquatic centre trust *PHOTO ALBUM*An unidentified man and his dog at the Franz Josef Glacier.1930`s.A BUSY SCENE AT THE FIRING MOUNDS DURING THE WESTLAND MATCH - the New Zealand annual rifle shooting contest .1919.GMC logging truck carrying large logMouat truck WestportThe crew of the fishing boat, Seafarer, which hit a sandbar and beached at Carters Beach, near Westport, on Tuesday night, wait for a high tide before attempting to refloat the vessel. Dr Basil Wilson, aged 92, was medical superintendent of the Westland Hospital in Hokitika from 1931 to 1943. Sacred Heart School Reefton *PHOTO ALBUM*Mayor Tony Kokshoorn and Craig Boote opening the new Westfleet Seafoods factory in Greymouth. ALBUM - Mayor Tony Kokshoorn. Greymouth Council presented the "Paul Harris Fellow". This is the highest award from the International Rotary Foundation. 2013. Familiar Faces Band at Punakaiki.1960`s.The Takutai Belle, the Africa Queen of the West Coast, gently plies the swamps between Hokitika and Lake Mahinapua. Greymouth personality, Mr Trevor Bryan, bears a remarkable resemblance to the statue of a sea captain on the town's floodwallLogging in the Wainihinihi area, water race on the left.Prices Crk shifting their bush gear, Don Hartill 2nd from left. Fosters truck.

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