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Albert Street under flood. 1936.Dobson Car Rest Home (album)Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel ReeftonThe Reefton School of Mines 1886Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.
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Arahura dredge construction staff 1938Homer Tunnel 1954Fording the Okuru River with fortnightly mail ,1930Maria Murtha before the Reefton Centennial, 1960.New Commercial Hotel Fire, reefton, March 1968.Murthas and Collins in Reefton, date unknown.Reefton Rugby Team, late 1950s early 1960s.Mr A W Schaef, photographer and aviatorElsie Mary Walsh, Gillespies BeachHeaphy Track marker, old regional boundary marker post and Fourteen Mile post.Fitzgerald culvert TurwhateThe Avery family West Coast Rugby team played its first ever game 1893Last days of Ahaura School 2004 *PHOTO ALBUM*Piner family on day tripGreymouth..early days.Greymouth taken from Cobden, includes Mawhera QuayGreymouth taken from Cobden, includes Mawhera QuayTaken from balcony at Revingtons, Greymouth early 1990s.Coal shovellers Brian Coghlan and Piet GrootVolunteers who worked on the St Columbo HallGreymouth's winning Top Town teamFour steamers in Greymouth, 1911 Tiroroa in Buller GorgePictures found at Dobson dump . *PHOTO ALBUM*Cobden quarryWest Coast Netballers - 1970s 3/3 *PHOTO ALBUM*St Mary's High School - 1973 *PHOTO ALBUM*Marist Rugby Football Club Golden Jubilee 1934 to 1984Women's basketball *PHOTO ALBUM*Neil Keenans truck accident on the Evans Creek bridge.1959.Scott family from KarangaruaCobden School 1976 and Marist 8th grade *PHOTO ALBUM*Band Rotunda,Greymouth.Runanga School. 1971.Grey Main School 1st X15.1928.Coal mining claim letterMount (Mont) D'Or sluicing claim RossCondon Family, South Westland. -ALBUM-The Scott and Williams families, South Westland.1920s-60s -ALBUM-Royal visit 1953-54 *PHOTO ALBUM* New Point Elizabeth Mine .1928. -ALBUM- Looking up Tainui Street , Greymouth.1965.South Island Rugby League team.1950.Mokihinui River.1905.Crossbar clothes line,Blaketown.1960s.Dora Nobles house on Buller Rd, Reefton, 1983.Reefton Centennial Parade, 1988.Some sort of march going past Graham and Francie Hunters house on the corner of Lucas St and Buller Rd, Reefton, 1978.Stillwater fatal train crash caused by landslip.1904.

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