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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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ALBUM - ARTHURS PASS-OTIRA - CHRISTCHURCH - WEST COAST. 1918 and 2018. ALBUM - A couple of Police cars that were damaged at the time of the Inangahua EQ - could of hit slips in the Buller Gorge. 1968.Taupo shipwreck Cobden, Grey River, 1900Plane crash, Franz Josef Glacier, 1950 - wreckage carried by glacier *PHOTO ALBUM*Greymouth and floodwall August 1975St Johns Presbyterian church, Dennehy house and council fountain, Tainui Street GreymouthSluicing on the West Coast.ca.1870`s.Arahura Road Rail bridge *PHOTO ALBUM*GreymouthMillerton - top of the inclineA Sluicing Claim near Westport.1898.Westport Coal Company Incline .1869.Palmerston Street, Westport .ca.1880.Mine closure protest marchUnidentified West Coast town .ca.1875-1890 - Dillmanstown Greymouth.ca.1875-1890.Sluicing on the West Coast. ca.1875-1890.Kumara.ca.1875-1890.Lake Mahinapua near Hokitika ca.1879-1898.Mackay Street, Greymouth, during flood.1936. Hallenstein Brothers Greymouth branch premises on the corner of Albert Street - in flood. 24 June 1905.Forestry workers ,South Westland. Westland Racing Club's midsummer meeting, held at Hokitika on January 5.1914.South Westland bush road.Mr Watkin reading a 1905 comic at his Cobden home.Cobden branch of the Westland Savings Bank replaced by a second mobile branch.View of Granity and Coast Line from Millerton Track.1936.West Coast visitors arrive at the Faith, greeted by Sheep and dog.Haast.Plunket Nurse on West Coast District work.The Avenue, West Coast Road.ca.1879-1898.The West Coast Road.1879.Pounamu boulder headed to GreymouthMaurice “Mocky” Brereton Kiwi #466 obituaryDenniston.Westport bowls 1972Cobden whitebaitersFlooded shopping area, Greymouth.1903.Kilgour's Union Hotel,Mawhera Quay, Greymouth.ca.1867-1874.Millers House, Greymouth.ca.1867-1874.GREYMOUTH .ca.1890`s.Hamilton and Nichol and Union Bank of Australia - Mackay St opposite Volunteer Hall,Greymouth.ca.1867-1874.Murchison bombMickey Mouse letterbox, CobdenAitken cousins.2018.Joseph Breeze , Volunteer Fireman - son of John Jerome Breeze, town cryer of Hokitika.1890.Ross Christmas tree fund annual dance, 1964Betty and Albert Dense Wedding day Dec 1940Protest for Preston Road floodwall, GreymouthPounamu boulder at Westland Recreation Centre, 2008 Jim Manera and Elsie Manera , with Dianne and Ken Smith - Ross Christmas tree fund annual dance in 1964.

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