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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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Greymouth, 1937. Guide Harcourt on the edge of a crevasse on Franz Josef Glacier.1928.McCullough's Creek,near Whataroa and Harihari - one of the Hooded streams which had to be forded by the cars.1928. Cars belonging to a party halted on a stretch of road during the return journey to Hokitika.1928.The rock on Franz Josef Glacier from which a flare is fired when a party arrives at 8 p.m. By this signal those at Waiho know that all is well, and flooded streams en route have been negotiated successfully.Two men delivering mails on a horseback from Weheka, in South Westland to Okuru, a distance of 98 miles.Men loading stacks of timber onto bogies at the Ross timber mill .1947.Packhorses take on mail and stores from Mussel Point to Lower Okuru.1936.Andrea Rodger, Miss West Coast, 1970Monk family of Rewanui *PHOTO ALBUM*Bushmen using cables and pulleys attached to a spar tree to load logs onto bogies on tramway tracks for processing at the timber yard at Ross.1947.A bushman attaching chains to secure logs on bogies on tramway tracks for the 14-mile journey back to the mill at Ross.1947.A group at the unveiling of the war and coronation memorial by the Premier, Hokitika, Westland, June 3, 1903ALBUM - Coburn`s Motors . Greymouth.1927 to 1973.Tuna being loaded onto a Greymouth boatOld coalmine, Rewanui *PHOTO ALBUM*Hari Hari house. A group of troopers from the West Coast, South Island on board the troopship 'Britannic' in Wellington Harbour, 1 August 1902Cowper Street house, GreymouthFoundation-Stone Laid For The War Memorial Cenotaph At Greymouth.The Westland war and coronation memorial, unveiled by the Premier at Hokitika, June 3, 1903.A ceremony at the Bridge of Remembrance, Cobden, Greymouth.1925.Agfest moves to Greymouth *PHOTO ALBUM*Ozzie Jackson full time mayor 1975Otira Gorge truck crash, 1978Rewanui October 2026 *PHOTO ALBUM*Fox Hills about 1965. MOW. South Westland gangs recovering one of their own trucks. The West Coast Combined Primary Schools Rep team that took part in the Seddon Shields Primary Schools Tournament in Nelson in 1966.Greymouth Marist - winners of the 1965 South Island Marist Easter Tournament Inter-Wanganui Co-Operative Dairy Co., Hari HariALBUM - Mayors negotiate huge future infrastructure funding from Government. "Best opportunity the West Coast has ever had".2018.FAIRLIES, GREYMOUTHWaiuta. Workers pushing a motor trolley up an uplifted piece of track after the 1968 Inangahua earthquake.The woman holding the baby is Alice Elizabeth Morris and the older lady is her mother outside nile st famiy home.ca.1895.Seddon Shields Schoolboy Rugby .1970.Ahaura, 1921 *PHOTO ALBUM* Allen McDonnell, of McDonnell Brothers, Totara Flat, 1963.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.1993. Article image Award winning dairy farmers Dianne and Wayne Yates, of Karamea.1995.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.

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