Greymouth - Barrytown - Punakaiki Bus.1956.

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DescriptionGreymouth - Barrytown - Punakaiki Bus.1956.Date of Photo1956Map^[1]ContributorKells Family Photo

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Location (city or town)BarrytownPunakaikiBarrytownOrganisation (eg business)Greymouth - Barrytown - Punakaiki Bus.1956.

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Category TagtransportMenuBy Location | BarrytownBy Decade | 1960-1969

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Date Created15th January 2023CommentsMarj Powell
I am pretty sure this driver is Stan Price known to many as “Ruru “. Geoff Powell.

Kevin Fleming
Marj Powell Think you are correct,didn’t he marry Elaine Barnes ex Ngakawau?

Cherie Mortensen
My father Stan Price. We lived at Punakaiki. Queen Mary also collected the milk cans and took them to the butter factory in Greymouth. We often stopped at the Barrytown Hotel and the Punakaiki Tearooms as I remember. I haven’t seen this photo, so thank you for putting this up.

Jenny Forrest
Cherie Mortensen The photo was possibly taken at Jack and Henry Hill’s dairy farm.

Cherie Mortensen
Jenny Forrest I can’t remember but we went to dairy farms and collected the full cans along the road too.

Raymond Bridger
My old school bus took me barrytown they were long days

Trish Rennie
I remember riding on that as a child….

Crow Bay
I remember it delivering our bread at the bach duting the holidays

Lyn Doncliff
Sure is Uncle Stan Price

Vincent Knapp
Known as the queen mary passengers and luggage delivered groceries also

Jennifer Noble
Loved going to town in the Queen Mary

Brian Langton
Nigel Roberts my Dad used to work on the Queen Mary as a mechanic at Gibbs Transport was one of there two mechanics in the day.

Hellen Morris
My husband’s father also drove the bus.
His name was George Morris.

Ann Knipe
My Dad also drove the Queen Mary in the mid 1950's.

Tony Ellen
When I worked for Ron Morris delivering the Argus paper around runanga and dunollie I would meet the queen Mary to get the papers in the wee morning hours

Gavin Davy
The back off this bus used to sit on a hill around Barrytown for years. Used to look out for it when we went out to Puni.

Gavin Davy
The back off this bus used to sit on a hill around Barrytown for years. Used to look out for it when we went out to Puni.

Kevin O'Regan
I thought this service was provided by Gibbs Transport Westport. Told that by Barrytown Henry Langridge.

Gavin Davy
Kevin O'Regan part of this used to be sitting in a paddock near Barrytown when I was a kid.

Nigel Roberts
Kevin O'Regan it was

John Roberts
Rue Price was one of the Drivers.It was Known as the Queen Mary.

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