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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.Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-
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Hokitika whitebait stands damaged by a flood, 1993Gillman's place, Dobson, with cars *PHOTO ALBUM*John Cowan and matai stumpThe Gillmans in Greymouth: Alan and Joe with their sons and Greg Stugeon rightGreymouth war memorial pillars relocation *PHOTO ALBUM*COAL MINERS TRAIN. GREYMOUTH-REWANUI. ALBUM - Its a few years ago since Bill Cairns went and looked at the 12 mile mine.ALBUM - 1927, Named Te Miko mine worked by M Wafer,1928 renamed Cox Crk Mine worked by Cox and Marsh.Model of proposed Reefton Macraes goldmine, 1992Reefton furniture maker Steve Hawes, 1994Ackers at the Kumara Racing Club’s centennial race meet A man standing on a bridge with a waterwheel below - where the Kanieri River runs out of Lake Kanieri,1932.On the road to Jackson Bay.1922.At Work In A Westland Forest .1926.Jacksons railway stationGuardian Cement Works at Cape Foulwind Stavill and party sluicing, Kanieri Road.1895. Diggers shifting camp, Blue Spur Road , Hokitika.1895.OgiIivie's, Ross Road, Halfway House.1895.Braving the elements on washing day.1931.HEROINE , ARRIVED at GREYMOUTH. (For timber shipment to Melbourne).1894. Anatoki ship leaving the Grey RiverPassengers on a Coast Air flight from Greymouth to Christchurch, 1986‘Lochiel’ hut, Upper Moonlight in 1920sThe Tongan Community presented Greymouth Mayor Tony Kokshoorn with a tapa cloth.Cobb and Co coach outside Stevenson's Hotel in Reefton.1900`s.Farmers with their sheep dogs on an unidentified station in the Koiterangi Valley , near Hokitika .1947. Loading the farm dray with ensilage at an unidentified station in the Koiterangi Valley near Hokitika. 1947.A man directing a high-pressure hose using a makeshift wooden rudder during sluicing operations at a West Coast gold mine.1930`s.Gold prospecting at Gillespies Beach, Westland District, 1932.Sluicing for gold, West Coast, 1937.John Paul II High School student with a typewriter, 1986Franz Josef Glacier, Westland.1913.A mountaineer sitting on top of an immense medial moraine rock, which can be seen at the base of the La Perouse Glacier.1912.Richard Cornelius, CMP Kokiri meatworksTouch rugby in LondonP and T (Post and Telegraph) workers in GreymouthTrain Examiner's Shelter, Westport Railway Yard.1970`s.Westport Blacksmith Hughie Quartly, 1992"My Dad home for lunch ".ca.1966.Trapping a ferret at the Deka store, Westport, 1992Cape Foulwind, Westport Cement Works Truck 1960's. *PHOTO ALBUM*Demolition of the Theatre Royal, Westport, 1992Buller High School's BIg River radio station, 1992Hokitika Government Building *PHOTO ALBUM*Old Fox River Bridge on horseback about 1986.Train coming off the S bend bridge into the Greymouth river siding. *PHOTO ALBUM*IPL mill Gladstone, 1992A view of the Blackwater mine, one of the largest gold quartz mines.Waiuta.1934.Mr. Thomas Dallow - he was reputed to have taken more gold in the Buller District than anyone else.1931.

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