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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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Map of early Greymouth Harbour, rivers and waterwaysMiners from the Red Queen Mine at Mokohinui River in the Karamea district.1935.Sluicing at Glenroy, Murchison.1935.Hauling logs onto the skids at Granite Creek,Karamea.1935.Bushmen felling a red pine at Granite Creek, Karamea.1935.Two veterans at Karamea, playing their daily game of draughts.1924.Miss West Coast 1966Blaketown Playcentre Christmas party.1965.D SEYMOUR, R LIDDLE, K SEYMOUR at the Boys tomahawk chop at the Ikamatua feild day.1965.Strongman Mine disaster bravery awardsA panoramic view of Greymouth.1904.The process of washing the sand and gold from the stones in a huge revolving cyclindrical drum at the Grey River dredge at Ikamatua,1941.The furnace for retorting the amalgam to secure the pure gold.Waiuta.1933.Only mausoleum on the West CoastMystery RS brick found at 16 MileHokitika Wharf .1897.The Town Hall, Hokitika.ca.1906.Working in the rain, bushmen attach chains to secure logs on bogies on tramway tracks for the 14-mile journey back to the mill at Ross.A bridge over a river carrying tramway tracks used to transport logs for processing at the timber yard at Ross. 1947.Hollyford-Okuru road construction, 1940.Bush hut, South Westland.ca.1920`s.Hollyford-Okuru road construction, 1940Greymouth croquet pavilion relocation, 2017Westland Frozen ProductsAn Anzac family; from the bush blocks; son of William Curtis Havill & Agnes Taylor (Stafford); New equipment for Westland Co-op Dairy, 1992A 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*

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