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Albert Street under flood - Percy K. Wah with bike.. 1936.Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel ReeftonThe Reefton School of Mines 1886
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Train crash Otira, 1980 *PHOTO ALBUM*IMPERIAL HOTEL. Corner of Boundary Street and Richmond Quay.NZR Kp 970 STEAM TRAIN. ARTHURS PASS.An Ab is dragging a train south out of Greymouth Station heading towards HokitikaJourneying down the Haast River with a pack train during a trip to the West Coast.A tributary of the Buller River near its outlet at Lake Rotoiti.1938.Sluicing for gold, Greenstone Creek, 1932. The bridge over the outlet of Lake Kanieri .1922.Official Opening. WEST COAST WILDERNESS TRAIL. Kumara-Hokitika section. PICNICKING ON A WET DAY AT LAKE KANIERI.1910.ALBUM - Pages from Hokitika District High School journal,"The Victorian", from December 1939. ABEL TASMAN SHIPWRECK. Cobden Tiphead. 1936.OFFICIAL OPENING. WEST COAST WILDERNESS TRAIL. Greymouth-Kumara section.One passenger killed and nine others injured in railcar smash near Hokitika.1937.Official opening of new timber mill at Bruce Bay.1935.A coastal trader on the waterfront at Okuru Harbour, Westland.1922. Two men inspecting a bank of sluice boxes during gold mining operations in Westland. Exact location unknown.1935.McDonald's Creek Bridge,South Westland, 200 feet long, with approaches 21 chains in length.1930. A lorry fording the Jacobs River, South Westland, with a load of fat lambs from a nearby station.1938.Car driving Hokitika to Franz Josef, 1929Greenstone River in Westland District.ca.1930 - 1949.An Avro 594/616 Avian (ZK-ACM) flying over the Franz Josef Glacier in the Westland Tai Poutini National Park.ca.1930`s.A man taking a photograph at an unidentified river on the track between Blue River and Māori Saddle near Haast Pass.ca.1940- 1959.Florence Farmer, standing by a large felled tree trunk among forestry slash and bush on the West Coast.ca.1960.EXTENDING THE GOVERNMENT WATER-RACE BY MEANS OF A THIRTY-INCH SYPHON ACROSS THE TARAMAKAU.1911.West Coast's oldest churchesWEST COAST. HYDROELECTRIC SCHEMES *PHOTO ALBUM*View looking north-east from the fire watch tower on Hamilton Street, Hokitika.1920. An Auckland Weekly News reporter's car is parked in front of the All Nations Hotel on the left.Barrytown.ca.1930-1939.A group of trampers near a glacier during a Westland tramping trip.1950.Midland Line men who served in war *PHOTO ALBUM*Westland Recreation Centre opening 2016 Gold miners in front of their cottage, demonstrating a sluice box.West Coast,1930`s.Lake Mapourika, West Coast, 1938Tourists crossing a bridge near Otira 1913.An unidentified woman sitting among the pancake rocks at Punakaiki .1935.A timber worker on horseback returning home from a days work at the mill.Buller District.1931.Runanga Masonic Lodge 1960The road to the Glaciers - Ferguson`s Bush.1971.Flood damaged bridge at Larrys Creek - between Reefton and Inangahua.1926.New railway construction on a large scale - the new section between Glenhope and Murchison being nearly completed.1930.Homeless Murchison women and children ready to be taken to Nelson after earthquake.1929.A BRIDGE AND EMBANKMENT ON THE NELSON - WESTPORT SECTION OF RAILWAY.1911.Blackball Centennial 1866-1966 Celebrations.Magpies' Brent Stuart Western Suburbs against WarriorsGrey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn authorising the New Zealand Army to have the freedom of the streets of Greymouth *PHOTO ALBUM*Moana train wreck carriage transformed *PHOTO ALBUM*LESTERS - 1875 - 2025.Robert Charles Chesterman – Flight Sergeant - Air Gunner - No 37 Squadron. WW2 THE 'PEG O' MY HEART' COMPANY (J. AND N. TAIT) TOURING THE WEST COAST.1918.

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