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Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel ReeftonThe Reefton School of Mines 1886Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.Albert Street under flood. 1936.Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-
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Memories of Koiterangi by Sarah GrowcottDouglas boys from KowhitirangiThe Tucks of Nelson Creek - Frederick Stanley Tuck,aged 12. 1902. Kotuku in the 1930s - Bill Douglas, Molly Mears, Katie Mears and Jim DouglasSome Reefton men at Maruia, date unknown.Mrs J. McClymont, storekeeper, Blacks Point.Aerial photo of Blacks Point, date unknown.Ajax Boiler clean up team led by Tom Hinton, about 1974.St. Stephens Church, Reefton, date unknown.Reefton Cenotaph, date unknown.Conveyor Belt and Incline at Garveys Creek open cast mine, date unknown.Old Bins at Burkes Creek Mine, date unknown.Stagecoach in Lower Otira Gorge. ca.1910.Dr Ebenezer Teichelmann out for a drive from Hokitika, circa 1927Westland Hospital Hokitika graduation 1971From Canterbury to Westland by Dennistoun's Pass 1936. Jane Molloy *PHOTO ALBUM*Old Grey Valley and Arnold Valley movie projectorLydia Shannon with James Douglas at Kowhitirangi Nyberg loco at RuruWest Coast Alpine Club ,Easter.1947 . - ALBUM -The Shannon/Douglas Family of KowhitirangiCoaching through the Buller Gorge.ca.1900`sA fancy dress day in Cobden. ca.1949.Blaketown Signal StationJune Rawlins probably mid 1940s riding a horse in GreymouthDe Filippi cousins with Eunice Henderson and three Thornton sistersWedding of Margaret Thornton to Alan Marshall at St Patrick's Church Greymouth Advert for assistant in Reefton Butter Factory, September 1949.Advert for bandsman for Inangahua Silver Band, October 1950.Group by car 1940s KotukuGreymouth tipheadShannon/Douglas Family of KowhitirangiGreymouth - circa 1910.Remains of Big River School, 1950's.Old National Bank, Reefton deposit slip.Dawsons Hotel, Reefton being demolished, June 1984.Benny Hore's old hut on back road to Boatmans, date unknown.Boatmans cook house remains, 1980 or 1981.Reefton Scottish Dancers, date unknown.E. V. "Ted" Jones, licensee of the hotel, Big River, date unknown.Grey Main School ,P4-S1. 1972.Peter Molloy, George Hill, Dog, David Hill, Terence Molloy. Kotuku.ca.1934.George and David Hill taken at Kotuku behind Jack's Mill School.ca.1940`sHokitika D.H.S, P 1 . 1960.Restoring band rotunda, Dixon ParkHokitika District High School 1960Sacred Heart First Communion, Cobden. 1950.Sacred Heart pupils,Cobden. 1925.Cobden school. 1911 and 1921. - 2 PHOTOS -

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