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Albert 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 ReeftonThe Reefton School of Mines 1886
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Aitken cousins.2018.Joseph Breeze , Volunteer Fireman - son of John Jerome Breeze, town cryer of Hokitika.1890.Ross Christmas tree fund annual dance, 1964Betty and Albert Dense Wedding day Dec 1940Protest for Preston Road floodwall, GreymouthPounamu boulder at Westland Recreation Centre, 2008 Jim Manera and Elsie Manera , with Dianne and Ken Smith - Ross Christmas tree fund annual dance in 1964.The Steeples near Cape Foulwind, West Coast.1891. ALBUM - Government deer-stalkers on the West Coast - wartime demand for hides makes culling doubly important.1940.Keas in captivity at Haast Pass.1940.The Alma Glacier and icefall, near the Franz Josef Glacier - The Sterling Rocks appear in the background.1938.Conservation land fight/protestThe Noble familyView of wooded countryside near Te Kinga.1938.A large kahikatea, on the edge of bush on the West Coast, with a person off to the right amongst the forestry slash.Gold Nugget Hotel, Shanytown, beer order on postcard *PHOTO ALBUM*ALBUM - COBDEN BRIDGE. 1886--1975 - Passing a bus was a challengeALBUM - Jade Prospectors hut known as Jade Inn in the Arahura River catchment.Craig Smith - Grandson of Lorrie Smith,tanker driver.ca.1950`s.Arthur's Pass resident Marie McFarland surveys the landslide and rockfalls triggerea by the earthquake. The rocks blocked State Highway 73 and the Otira River near Candys Bend A glacier between Whataroa and Franz Josef of the Main Divide, Westland.1934.Vehicles loaded onto trucks for transportation from Arthurs Pass to Otira .1934.Private J. J. Caliari, of Kanieri, Westland - Died of influenza at Samoa.1919.A Dobson man walked away from this crashed 1946 Ford V/8 Sedan.Reefton's first flush toilet, used by King Edward VIIIHokitika Primary School Infants Room 5, 1967Reefton Hospital closure protest, 1988Reefton toymaker David KiddALBUM - Some pics of my trips to above Rewanui over the last 26 years,150 years since the deed of Westland signing (21st. May 1860). This photo was taken in 1964 at the Ross Christmas Tree Fund annual dance.GMC Truck that belongs to Tommy CroftConstruction work alongside the Hollyford River on the highway between Hollyford and Okuru.1940.Two trampers standing next to a car in South Westland , exact location unknown.1947.The Minister of Health, the Hon. H.T. Armstrong with Greymouth nurses.1940.Two powerful jets at work during hydraulic operations at the HoHonu Sluicing Company's claim at the Greenstone Creek, between Hokitika and Greymouth.ca.1933. Panorama of the New Miners' Homes at Marshallville, Near Burnett's Face, Showing The Hospital on Right.1925.Staff at Dixon House, Greymouth. ca. 2005.A man fording the Hollyford River with packhorses transporting supplies for the construction of the highway between Hollyford and Okuru, South Westland.1940.THE ENDLESS TRAMWAY USED FOR CONVEYING COAL AT DENNISTON.1911.Group portrait of bushmen seated on the back of a locomotive used to transport workers and felled logs between the felling area and the timber mill at Ross.1947.Hokitika whitebait stands damaged by a flood, 1993Gillman's place, Dobson, with cars *PHOTO ALBUM*John Cowan and matai stumpThe Gillmans in Greymouth: Alan and Joe with their sons and Greg Stugeon rightGreymouth war memorial pillars relocation *PHOTO ALBUM*COAL MINERS TRAIN. GREYMOUTH-REWANUI. ALBUM - Its a few years ago since Bill Cairns went and looked at the 12 mile mine.ALBUM - 1927, Named Te Miko mine worked by M Wafer,1928 renamed Cox Crk Mine worked by Cox and Marsh.Model of proposed Reefton Macraes goldmine, 1992

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