Cascade Westport Coal Company Bins - who is in the photo?

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DescriptionCan members help me please?
Bill Cairns who sadly, recently passed is the wee person in this 1933 photo taken at the Cascade Westport Coal Coy Bins in the Buller Gorge. Holding Bill is his mum 'Maggie' and his dad Tommy alongside. Bill was told by his father that Paddy Webb, Robert Semple and Garnet Mackley (appointed General Manager of NZ Railways in May 1933) appear in this photograph. Semple is not in the photo but Mackley and Webb appear to be the men in the white coats. At far left is Alf Newman who worked as a member of the Cascade co-operative coal party. There may be other party members present. Dignitaries such as Buller District/County Council members and those of the Buller Progress League are possibly among the others. I am in the late stages of researching the history of the Cascade Westport Coal Coy and would be appreciative for any help in identifying as many people in the photo as possible. Regards and thanks, Phil Walsh. Date of Photo1933Map^[1]ContributorPhil Walsh

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Location (city or town)WestportOrganisation (eg business)Cascade Westport Coal Company

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Category TagCoal Mining

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Date Created6th December 2021CommentsGrant Taylor
Paddy Webb is the shorter gentleman in the light coloured coat and to his right, also in a light coloured coat, is Garnet Hercules Mackley. It's a great photo and I hope the others can be identified.

Richard Howe
Grant Taylor G H Mackley had a great run Grant, After forty years on the job, he had forty six years on Superannuation.

Grant Taylor
Richard Howe He did too, he took early retirement in 1940 for 'personal reasons'. Lived to a great old age dying in April 1986 at the age of 102. Mackley was the instigator of the Standard railcar project and sometime in the 1970s the late John Murphy spent a most interesting day with him finding out all about that and many other things besides. A great achiever.

Richard Howe
Grant Taylor Always seemed to be wearing plus fours, and with a walking cane. Read a book once written by a former loco man based in Ohakune in the early 1920s i think it was. He threw a snowball at a clerk coming out of the station and it was a direct hit. The clerk was G H Mackley

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