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The 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 ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel Reefton
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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. Anglican Church at Charleston - wrecked by a cyclone.1913.Photographs taken at the annual camp of the Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast Regiment at Tapawera,1933. A SAWMILL AT MURCHISON,WEST COAST.1911.A new section of the Nelson-West Coast railway between Glenhope and Inangahua - It runs along the bank of the Buller River.1929.Making A Railway Through The Bush - A NAVVIES' CAMP ON THE NELSON-WESTPORT ROUTE, WEST COAST.1912.Blackwater dredgeGreymouth 150th beach gold bar hunt *PHOTO ALBUM*The South Island representative rugby team. 1909.A view at Granity Bridge, on the Midland Railway between Nelson and the West Coast -The last section from Glenhoe to Murchison is now being completed.The swing bridge and sawmill at the mouth of the Patarau River, near West Wanganui on the West Coast . 1910.Train in the snow at Arthur's PassNEW TE NIKAU HOSPITAL. GREYMOUTH. 2016.Runanga League player Gary Smith *PHOTO ALBUM*A novel church bell: method of calling worshippers to the House of Prayer at Capleston.1915.St Pats Std 6 Friday morning Cookery Class - Miss Wilkins is the Instructor.Greymouth.1966.Girls of the Grey V Class at the old Technical school. Greymouth.1917. OPENING OF THE WESTPORT BOWLING CLUB'S GREEN, NOVEMBER, 1907Group of men standing in front of the premises of W Townson, Chemist, in Westport.1900-1909.UNITED CRICKET CLUB A TEAM,WINNERS WINGHAM CUP .1926 - 27.Old hut at Howard, Maud River *PHOTO ALBUM*Where many unemployed are earning a livelihood - a Gold Prospectors' camp at New Creek ,Howard district,Murchison.1932.Unusual combination of pets - deer, lamb and cat at 'Glenita,' Murchison.1925.A horse harnessed to a grubber hauling out a large stump on a farm at Karamea.1918.Dairy cows grazing on a farm near Inchbonnie, Westland.1938.A soldier settler's farm in the Gowan Valley - Gowan River`s source is at Lake Rotoroa and travels 11 kilometres before feeding into the Buller River.1925.The herd returning to the homestead at milking time, Seddonville.1921.Rewanui blacksmith and rugby league player Bill Glynn *PHOTO ALBUM*Brunner Mine memorial 20101937 - Farm worker and horses on a road near Weheka. NB: Weheka was renamed Fox Glacier (after the glacier 6 km away) in the 1940`s. Women from the War Service Auxiliary providing cups of tea for the Reserve soldiers on parade.Greymouth.1942Military exercises in in Greymouth and Cobden - Reserve soldiers on parade.1942.A panoramic view of Dilmanstown.1903.Mr J P Muir's alluvial gold mining claim, Shellback Gully, Ross.1902.The Welcome Gold dredge on the Buller River.1902.Gold prospector Joe Vrobifski, Kaniere, 1939.Port of Greymouth swordfishThe Mawhera Gazette - 1937 *PHOTO ALBUM*What ever happened to the raft racing in the Grey River ?Upper Kowhitirangi School .1924 Repair gang where Clay Bank bridge was destroyed by the Murchison earthquake.1929.Earthquake Refugees near Murchison.1929.

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