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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 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS. *PHOTO ALBUM*A MINE AT ADDISON'S, SHOWING THE RACE WHICH BRINGS THE AURIFEROUS MATERIAL ON TO THE GOLD-SAVING TABLESPeople on horseback, Hokitika Postcards of old New Zealand - HOKITIKA - BEN THIEM PHOTOGRAPHER.ALBUM - Construction of the GREYMOUTH FLOODWALL VIEWING PLATFORM. 2019. Two horses which did great work during the repairs of the roads near Murchison after earthquake.1929.The ceremony of cutting the ribbons at Murchison - Official opening of a new scenic road from Picton to the West Coast.1930.Cars of holidaymakers on the narrow road through the Buller Gorge .1923. The Backblocks Of The West Coast - a farm near Reefton.1912.Prospectors in the Maude Creek, Golden Hope fields.Murchison.Building a dam in the bush in the Golden Hope area .Murchison.1937.Garth Morgan Maisey obituary March 2026Meybille bay,West Coast. 1938.Beachcombing gold prospector on the beach at Westport.Maori chief Burial caves, Greymouth *PHOTO ALBUM*A large landslide near Murchison where the road and telegraph poles subsided.1929.Clonmore near Notown *PHOTO ALBUM*West Coaster nz Brent Stuart playing for Western Suburbs Magpies against the WarriorsMen working at one of the gold claims at Woodstock, near Hokitika.1932.Three miners displaying twelve gold ingots on an upturned crate at the Blackwater Mine in Waiuta. 1932.Home Guard member Francis Edward Lawson and family, of Dobson *PHOTO ALBUM*Taylorville School 1926Dick Collins - His father Edward Collins died in the Brunner mine disaster Strongman mine disaster 1967Memories of early Greymouth *PHOTO ALBUM*A prospector photographed outside his log cabin at the Golden Hope settlement on the Maggie and Maud goldfield, Murchison district.1933.Unique method of winning gold - A diver about to descend to the bed of the Maruia River.1932. A 90 foot stacker ladder being constructed to be used for disposing of the tailings at the stern of the dredge - Brian Boru Company's claim being developed near Nelson creek. 1932.Two nuggets of gold and a George V half-crown displayed on the open palm of a gold miner at Murchison.1932.Where gold is won by the quartz crushing method - Waiuta.1929.Mayor's Bob Parker and Tony Kokshoorn at the opening of the Miners memorial An old prospector,at the Mangles, Murchison.1923.Prospectors during lunch break on the Golden Hope fields.Murchison district.1937.Panning for gold on the Golden Hope goldfields.Murchison district.1937.ALBUM - Golden Hope - a new settlement of unemployed workers successfully established under the Government's Gold Prospecting Development Scheme.Murchison.1933.Desecration of Maori graves, GreymouthShane Bertacco on his horse at Wilmot Armstrong's house top or Mills street on 7 mile road.1950`s.Advertisement for Diadem tobacco - Union store ,GREYMOUTH.Original Springs Junction post office. *PHOTO ALBUM*Tony Kokshoorn with Helen Brennan - West Coast Rugby League Administrators of the year-1992. Stavill and party sluicing, Kanieri Road.1895.An old prospector talking to a tramper on the West Coast.1929.Trucks of ore ready to be hoisted to the surface - Blackwater mine at Waiuta Waiuta.1931.Hydraulic operations at the Hohonu Sluicing Company's claim at the Greenstone Creek.1933.Patrick Brennan - born in Greymouth 1931.The battery at the Blackwater quartz crushing plant in Snowy River Valley at Waiuta.ca.1930`s.Hokitika Primary P4 .1964 .New proposed police station site Greymouth and the Warehouse opening *PHOTO ALBUM*NEW REWANUI, MIDDLE BRAKE LOOP TRACK. GREYMOUTH *PHOTO ALBUM*Men and motorbikes, 1948

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