Whitebaiting on the Grey River. ca.1890`s. - 2 PHOTOS -

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DescriptionWhitebaiting on the Grey River. ca.1890`sDate of Photoca.1890`sMap^[1]ContributorTony Kokshoorn

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Location (city or town)GreymouthLandmark (Place)Grey RiverEventWhitebaiting on the Grey River

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Date Created13th August 2021CommentsMargi Adamson
Yeah
Marie Summer

wonder how things will go this yr with 31st october being the last day 4 all nz

Robin Morresey
Marie Summer the new seasons time starts next year.

Marie Summer

Robin Morresey sure its this yr

Marie Summer

cause theres no one doing it in chch yet

⁠Sharyn Kevin Ratcliffe
what are the dates for this year please

Vaughan Smith
By the bucket full

Donnandchrissy Westcoast
wow a lot of Rock work there…excavations from cliff face in distance?

Tony Simpson
My thoughts too - and then when did the wall go in. Must have been a mammoth job in those days. Does any of that wall remain or ????

Jakh Heremia
1980's?

Fond memorys of watching my dad (Bill Neil)white bait, had a stand under the warf. At times ate it for breakfast dinner&tea,& with big catches, giving it away.Kyle Webster
enough for a kerosine tin...

Isobel Bodenham
Kyle Webster thats what I remember - the kerosene can full of whitebait

Malcolm Gollan
Kyle Webster My grandfather used a kerosene tin. I think this was possibly the most common container. Apparently in the early days it was so plentiful my grandfather used it as fertilizer on the garden (presumably once everyone was sick if eating it). … See More
Bruce Lightfoot
Malcolm Gollan overfish is not happening the problems of the baits decline is solely the reduction of breeding habitat. Extinction is not likely with the Fiordland southwestland area,s habitate PROTECTED AND the fact that it's proven that the bait can … See More

Stephen Lucas
I have probably worked that very spot on the rocks

Brodie Grave
Wow. Fantastic!

Wayne Leckie
Blake town tip well known ether turds after the turn of the tide lol

Collene Neander
when i was at boarding school my uncle would bring a kerosene tin of whitebaite in the 1940s for the convent

Bruce Lightfoot
Significant is the visable River protection works that had taken 0lace even way back then realising that All that rock had been moved with horse and dray probably

Bruce Lightfoot
The second photo was much later as that protection work is more recent

Graham Schaef
Bruce Lightfoot That is the Tip Head rocks. Taken there by rail from the Quary that you can see in the background at Smith St.

Bruce Lightfoot
Graham Schaef stand corrected can even see some mast,s Wakayama back there

Bruce Lightfoot
Graham Schaef still believe the second pic is later as the Cobden wall as shown in the first pic, would be submerged if still that low in the second

⁠Tones Williams
Just imagine if those people knew how much a KG it sells for today

Bruce Lightfoot
Tones Williams so right holey hell like more per kg than most would earn in a couple of yrs.be a lot of smile faces.f shure
⁠John Greaney
Nothing has changed in 130 years.
Tony Mundy
Didn't think you were that old John
Neville Sowry
John Greaney is that you whitebaiting

Brian Case
Wayne leckie more body

Mary Hall
My Mum used to whitebait there in late 1949 early 1950's

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