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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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A whitebaiter operating at the Mahitahi River, near Bruce Bay.Sept 1937,Packhorse on bridge, Westland- Exact location unknown.ca.1920`s. Pioneers who arrived in Westland before 1870 - jubilee celebrations of Westland .1914.Races for pioneers - Commemorating fifty years of progress.Hokitika.Jan 1914Kleena Coast Products, Westport, 1991Flooded home in Hector, 1991Packhorses take on mail and stores from Mussel Point to Lower Okuru.1936.Towing a car across the Little Waitaha River, South Westland.1920. The Rewanui Railway Line at Dunollie.Westland's Jubilee - a garden party at Hokitika.Jan 1914.Dellaca WestportA mushroom township - the large, basic Public Works camp on the shores of Jackson Bay.1938.Another article about Stapleton's Milkbar, Hokitika.Lyell School.ca.1937-8.Westport harbourmaster Captain Chris BaughQueen of the Glaciers 1969O'Brien's mine, Rewanui, and the death of Robert Knight *PHOTO ALBUM*Restoring the Brunner mine site, 2010Con and Stan Richards Denis (mother) Mclean and their Wives - Star United Pavilion.1970.Billy Williams's dance orchestraSouth Westland paddock - Fox Glacier in background. 1936.The Jubilee of Westland - the vice-regal party at Lake Kanieri - Closing events in the commemoration of its fifty years of settlement . Jan 1914.Jimmy Gordon QSM of Hokitika and Ian Boswell in front of a stockpile of Rimu logs, RuatapuWestport's Kawatiri dredge in Greymouth 2018 *PHOTO ALBUM*Jack and Phyllis Latham off on their Honeymoon. late 1920`s.Tasman Sea Scout cutter built by Reg Skelton returned to family *PHOTO ALBUM*A tie pin from the Criterion Hotel in the 1970s "Those were the days my friends". Railcar. Midland line. Between Cora Lynn and Arthurs Pass. 1978.A party of holiday-makers on the Tasman Glacier, at Christmas.1937. J.D. Pascoe, G.D.T. Hall, J.G. Malcolmson, A.P. Thomson on expedition to unclimbed areas on the Westland side of the Rangitata Divide.1935.William Dennis 'Dinnie' Nolan in a rowboat on Okuru Lagoon, with the Nolan family Farm visible in the background.1941.Hokitika Guardian newspaper linotype machineKaroro brickworks damaged by 'whirlwind', 1967Coast to Coast race moves to Greymouth, 2019 *PHOTO ALBUM*WARO - RAKAU RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB.1971.50 year old pet gecko foundHuge rock on Coast Road, 1968Rewanui mine? Westport Stockton mine trolley-lines near Ngakawau.1921.Female trampers on a wire suspension bridge at Waiho Gorge.1913.Horse-drawn tourist coaches on the road to Arthurs Pass.1913.Road through Arthurs Pass.1913.Trampers on the Franz Josef Glacier. 1913.A woman crossing the Tatare Stream at a campsite near Franz Josef Glacier.ca.1950`s.A party of men and women crossing the Franz Josef Glacier.1947.M V Konui ship in GreymouthWaiho - Weheka Road.1929.Old mail coach outside hotel in Weheka , Fox Glacier - It is still in use.1929.Greymouth, 1937. Guide Harcourt on the edge of a crevasse on Franz Josef Glacier.1928.

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