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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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ALBUM - Electric capstans, foot controlled for moving the coal wagons with ropes under the cranes to lift and unload into the ships. Greymouth Suburbs Rugby League Club - 9th Grade Team.1966.A Sime, amateur golf champion; C. O'Neill, welter-weight amateur boxing champion; and J. Steel, a member of the All Blacks and 100 and 220 yards professional running champion.Greymouth.1922.Children building sand castles alongside a mail aeroplane at Bruce Bay.1937.Two skiers preparing for a run from the Almer Hut at the head of the Franz Josef Glacier, on the Westland side of the Southern Alps.1940.Greymouth High School 1959Mrs B A Oats suitcaseCascade fishing boat crossing the Greymouth bar, 1992Greymouth Fire Brigade glasses 1967MAINTENANCE BRANCH - WESTLAND SECTION ,NZ RAILWAYS.1906.REDWITCH - CROSSING the BAR. GREYMOUTH. ca.1960s *PHOTO ALBUM*Watson family of Westport *PHOTO ALBUM*Glassons honey tin designMillerton ,West Coast .DEBBIE ANSETT..."It’s with great sadness I tell of my Niece, my friend my sister Leeanne Sneddon passed today."Bonzai cafe GreymouthKiwi Bernie GreenSchool children ready for snowball fight on a Greymouth Street.1931.Crowd gathered at the opening of the hydro-electric works on the Arnold River.1932.J.F. Walton ( R), of Greymouth, who has forty nine years of service to his credit at the annual conference of the United Fire Brigades' Association.1937.A man observing the view on top of Pancake Rocks.1934.New Zealand's only mine rescue station: Members of the party, carrying injured man on stretcher, coming out of the mine.1939.Native Kahikatea at Otira, on the road from Greymouth to Christchurch.1935.Lion Challenge match, 1984Hotelware dinner plate from the Dominion Hotel, Hokitika, era unknown; possibly 1950s.Tom Donelly and his brother Charlie - wood chopping at Hope.1971.Construction of the road between Hollyford and Okuru in South Westland.1938. Photograph of a strangely-shaped vine found in the bush by Mr. John Wick, of Aratika, Westland.1914.An old prospector working a bush claim near Hokitika.1935.Otira house. 1960`s.Honey and Thompson Family of Aratika.Denniston Cottage Hospital - opened 4th Nov,1910.Zero degree barber - Greymouth fisherman dressed in coat *PHOTO ALBUM*Tainui Street, Greymouth circa 1903The Blackball bridgeShark landed by fishing boat the VentureBlackball's Ernest and Frances (nee Harrison) Schafer with their son GeorgeWhen I started work in Fiordland, 1969, Kakapo were thought extinct - they are on their way back, now 237 birds!My Mother`s jug from the Exhibition held in the 1920’s.How the survey was done for Otira Tunnel.Visiting Strongman underground coal mine on a school tripThe Bush-Fringed Lake: A Glimpse From The Road of Lake Wahapo, Westland.1936. Three people brave the swing bridge in the Callory Gorge.1931.E.J. Schofield with his ten-pointer head , Haast.1935. Electric locomotive, Stockton Coal Company.1912.Sluicing for gold at Addison's Flat , near Westport.1940. The Kokatahi Koiterangi Band at Kumara for Westland Jubilee. 1914.Rapahoe Hotel armed invasionALBUM - Ponsonby , winners of the North Island section, played Millerton (West Coast), South Island winners, in the final of this year's Chatham Cup contest,1933.A woman and children on horseback passing through the Public Works camp in the Hollyford Valley. 1940.

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