Soldier's Creek behind Roa in the Paparoas,1910.

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DescriptionSoldier's Creek behind Roa in the Paparoas.

Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19100915-4-5Map^[1]External LinkAuckland City LibraryContributorHeather Newby

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Location (city or town)Soldier's Creek RoaOrganisation (eg business)ROA Mining CompanyEventSoldier's Creek behind Roa in the Paparoas

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Category TagCoal Mining

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Date Created13th December 2021CommentsIvan Murray Wilson
Reckon that's the definition......of cold.

Dorothy Wills
That looks cold

Mack An Bonn
Wow

Phyllis Aberhart
Wow that's cold. I lived in Blackball about 12 years and area I'd never heard of

Mark Thomas
Would that be the area that is referred to as Garden gully

Kyle Webster
Garden Gully is on the Croesus track, an old stamping battery

Rob Lunn
Garden gully is behind Moonlight/Atarau

Chris Bennett
Would that be coal or gold?

Glenn Johnston
That was to service coal mining above Roa.

Glenn Johnston
I think this is Braeton aka Braytown at the head of one of the tributaries of what is now called Paparoa Creek.
Richard Howe
No smoke coming from the chimneys. No wood or coal ? What a bleak outlook.

Heather Newby

Richard Howe it would be freezing. I would imagine they would have the fire going all night long.. and hot water bottles
Bruce Whitfield
Just some of our tough early European settlers who made NZ what it became...that is until this current Labour Govt decided to racially charge society.
John Paget
Their was a single men's camp behind the bath house on the Roa road. Their were still three old guys living in the huts in the early seventies.

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Soldier's Creek behind Roa in the Paparoas,1910.