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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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Crofts 1942 ex Army Hippo on a bush bridge with a long load. Ron Hartill driver.Logging truckTaramakau - LAST ROAD-RAIL BRIDGE, South IslandALBUM - Clearing slips Upper Buller Gorge 1968 quake taken out of Bell helicopte Enid (Topp) and husband Alf Magee, Myrtle Sharp, Fred Collis and wife Grace Collis (Magee), Percival Magee wife Julia (Cassidy).ReeftonALBUM - Langridge and Sons clearing slips 1968 quake just south of Iron Bridge LyellREEFTON RUGBY TEAM.December 1966.Ross Cemetery *PHOTO ALBUM*COBDEN KOHINOOR , 8TH GRADE WINNERS OF THE HALSWELL CUP. DEC 1966.European Hotel at Charleston with possibly a Leyland Comet truck Bush winch of Tuck Bros & Manson Sawmill at Te Kinga circa 1910Kokatahi Junior Rugby Football Club 1957Dobson Service Station.1966.Aftermath of Duncan Hardies Factory Fire, Greymouth.1966.25 years of service in the Fire Brigade. Greymouth . Dec 1966.Greymouth Post Office Engineering Branch ca.early 1960sBill O’Malley aka “Possum Bill” (late of Ikamatua).ca.1950.Members of the Kokatahi Band on the Hokitika Railway Station on their way to Auckland.1969.The last shift of Millerton Mine - bringing out machinery to be stored.November 1969.Miss Junior Blackball contest - Blackball, February 1965.SOUTH WESTLAND RUGBY TEAM PLAYING ON BUTLER`S PADDOCK WHATAROA - FOR THE DITTMAN SHIELD .ca.1936.Opening the redeveloped Greymouth skatepark.2015.House at 87 Blake Street, Blaketown, Greymouth *PHOTO ALBUM*1910 Dunoillie house now and then *PHOTO ALBUM*Violet Myrtle Sharp 1916-1994 wife of Terrance Arthur Thomas Hutchins Albert Bamfield Sharp, Manager of Co-Operative Store, Globe HillRunanga now and then *PHOTO ALBUM*Greta Frances Magee 1912-1988 with her brother Ronald Stanley Magee 1914-1940, and their cousin Violet May Collis.Reefton.ALBUM - Sarah Havill with Kowhitirangi twins Mark & Sarah .1922.James Magee 1861-1944 and wife Minnie (Dalton) 1862-1946.Charlotte "Myrtle" (Magee) 1894-1975 and brother Alfred "Alf" Baden Magee 1900-1987, children of Minnie (Dalton) & James Magee of Reefton,James Magee and wife Minnie (Dalton) of Sinnamon St, Reefton with their daughter Vera Susan Jones .NZ RUGBY LEAGUE TOUR . ENGLAND - BLACKBALL GREATS AGAINST EACH OTHER. BROTHERS DO BATTLE.Cron`s house at Haast. ca.1934.Okuru Football Team that played Jackson Bay on Nolan`s Airstrip.ca.1938.Members of the local Air Training Corps Squadron during a presentation at the Army Drill Hall, Greymouth.March,1966. Football Cabaret at Granity.March, 1966.Reefton resident Grant McAlpine outside the back door of his Grandparents` house & cousin Audrey Jones.1939.Albert Bamfield Sharp 1890-1968 Taxi DriverRELOCATING the 1904 RAILWAY SIGNAL BOXPORT OF GREYMOUTH. Ca. 1930's.Mary Henrietta Atkin 1872-1966Clement Parfitt Store, Werita Street, Greymouth accountThe Alpine Rugby Club - Albert Alfred Kennedy Sloan of the Lyell is 2nd from the end ca.1880's.ALBUM - Cobden - Kohinoor Schoolboy Presentation of Trophies - Ken McMullen presents Kevin Franklin with a cup.1969.Greymouth Gas Company staff 1927Old Greymouth radio station with black face and Uncle Mickey. Mick Spiers.KUMARA RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB. 1937.Old Ford Motors and the Post office .Greymouth.Fallen girders holding up traffic on the Weheka Road, South Westland.1939.

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