CLEARING THE ROUTE FOR THE HOKITIKA-ROSS RAILWAY.1908.

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DescriptionCLEARING THE ROUTE FOR THE HOKITIKA-ROSS RAILWAY, WEST COAST, SOUTH ISLAND. N.Z.

Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19081217-21-02Date of Photo1908-12-17Map^[1]External LinkAUCKLAND LIBRARY

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Location (city or town)HokitikaRossEventCLEARING THE ROUTE FOR THE HOKITIKA-ROSS RAILWAY, WEST COAST, SOUTH ISLAND. N.Z.

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Date Created24th August 2025CommentsPhil Wright
Look at the old bloke in the middle,you were worn out by 60 as a navvy."King Dick Seddon" brought in a pension, because he had been grafter himself,unlike the politicians today..

Les Holmes Germanicus
See how wide the wheelbarrows are and they're made of wood, They can carry a lot of dirt at once and you just lifted it over and it spilled out where needed whereas these modern narrower ones are designed to lift by the handles and pour at the front andrequire an operator of considerable skill and balance, especially on scaffold.

Heather Newby
Les Holmes Germanicus they are the same kind of wheelbarrows the Grey Council workers used at the Greymouth cemetery back in the day.

Pete Lusk
These barrows had to run on boards because of narrow steel wheels.

Wendy Oats
Love the mostaches?❤️

Rosemary Matthews
Wendy Oats They might have been Dalley relations Wendy. ?

Ditske Hulsbosch
What an amence job..wow. they where hardy people

Geoffrey Bell
The chap, third from the right, looks very much like Tom Colton. Tom was an overseer for the Council and there is a good chance he could have worked on this project. He died in Greymouth in 1969, aged 97.

Heather Newby
Geoffrey Bell amazing!it would have been the exercise that caused him to live that long

Colin Harman
Have travelled on that section of the track and it was the end of the line in the late 60s

Pete Lusk
These barrows had to run on boards because of narrow steel wheels.

Steve Purcell
Pete Lusk and no flat tyre's

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