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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.Party of deerstalkers returning home.
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Molloy Bros Bedford Truck Charles Edward Kearns of Reefton, died of consumptionCeder Denniston *PHOTO ALBUM*One of the oldest West Coasters - Mr Arthur Dudley Dobson (left) , chatting with Sir Frances Bell, who was present with the Ministerial Party.1924.Arthur Dudley Dobson Memorial, Arthurs Pass .1971.Grey Main Special Class.Greymouth. ca.1970-71.The murder of James Gifford at Maori Creek *PHOTO ALBUM*Haast Pass bridge. 1979,McGlashans garage, Greymouth, now furniture shop *PHOTO ALBUM*Greymouth-Christchurch railcarSurfing Cobden 1964West Coast, near Haast, 1971.Car parked alongside Haast Bridge for a picnic, Jack Henderson (left ).1965.Men carrying timber towards Haast Ridge for building Haast hut.ca.1915.Jack Rowntree on Haast Bridge, 1965.Old house at Blacks PointCoalbrookdale *PHOTO ALBUM*Notown Cemetery *PHOTO ALBUM*Helicopters doing lines work. Unknown information. *PHOTO ALBUM*Wallis Siding and the Kopara Mill. Late 1920s. *PHOTO ALBUM*Hokitika beachfront erosionAddisons Flat Cemetery *PHOTO ALBUM*A view at Westport, showing coal trucks ready for loading vessels at the wharf .1903. RUNANGA TOWNSHIP. 1909-12-09New Zealand Trustee of the Year Tony KokshoornRuru sawmill site *PHOTO ALBUM* Greymouth Chinese Mission SchoolAN ALLUVIAL CLAIM AT ADDISON'S FLAT ,South of Westport.1913.A short history of the Dobson mine disaster, 1926 *PHOTO ALBUM*Dobson Mine Disaster, 1926 - James Marshall and his cousin Thomas BlackWaiuta township looking south west.ca.1930`s.View of Side Road in Waiuta with Waiuta School building in centre back.1933. The Kohatahi Band. October 1969, Hokitika View looking north-east from the fire watch tower on Hamilton Street, Hokitika.1920.Heavy gale at Hokitika - waves invade the town.1913.Club Hotel, Greymouth RURU SAWMILL-- 1959.Coal miners and a wagon of coal, West Coast, circa 1903.1930 Cane baskets used in coaling - Westport Coal Co's hulk "Verito" coaling the San Francisco Mail Steamer "Ventura", Auckland.Suspension bridge at Tirimoana carries coal from Brightwater Coal Company's mine for shipping. 1938.Coal miners at Blackball Mine.1935.Seddonville around 1903, with the Westport-Cardiff Coal Company’s bins and coal handling facilities in the foreground.A rotary tipper empties coal from the mine tubs to be carried by belt feeder into the hopper.Strongman Mine. August 1976.McIvor's mine near DunollieMolloys Bedford J 7 truckTen Mile Valley Escarpment collapseCartoon - Mayor Tony Kokshoorn supporting the coal industryShip SS Rosamond in Greymouth Port, *PHOTO ALBUM* One of the construction camps - new road to Gillespie's Beach.1937. Mr J.W. Chamberlain, a veteran gold prospector Ross.1935.

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