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The Reefton School of Mines 1886Albert Street under flood - Percy K. Wah with bike.. 1936.Party of deerstalkers returning home.Blaketown lagoon.1862.Dobson Car Rest Home. -ALBUM-Oddfellows Hall ReeftonWilsons / Harris' Hotel Reefton
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An aerial view of the Public Works camp and location of the new wharf at Jackson Bay.1938.Coal trucks at the bottom of the Denniston Incline.1912.Placid waters of Lake Mapourika.1939.Cobden Hotel - Johnnie Rubbo Proprietor.ALBUM -1898. SHIPWRECK on the present site of the SPEEDWAY TRACK, Cobden Tip Head, Greymouth.ALBUM - Tōtara flat .. this little place has some stories to tell.ALBUM - Tōtara Flat school - Closed 2004.ALBUM - Milford Track photos - 71.0 km Distance from Barn Bay to Milford Sound .Gold workings at Five Mile Lagoon with Franz Josef Glacier in the backgroundMurray Street Greymouth *PHOTO ALBUM*Murchison - Fairfax St looking north showing Anglican Church.'Beachcomber at work' - a sketch which won second prize in the competition, by Lillie Robinson in Westport.Driving sheep through the Otira Gorge.1922.In the 90`s when Graham Lowe and Brent Todd came over for a visit.Wagons and horse teams hauling coal through Brunnerton.ca.1885.Waiuta township after snowfall.ca.1930`sEarthquake 1929 - Bett's Garage, Westport.Bronze medallion, bronze star, award of meritALBUM - This hut was recently rediscovered in the lower Taipo River area.Reefton from Rosstown, 2015 and 2019 comparing to 1894-95. ALBUM - L & M Redmond`s Plant , Mikonui .ca. late 1980`s.Mrs Cuff's store at Blackwater.1936.Greymouth.ca.1904.Greymouth.ca 1880`s. This was last year we had Mawheraiti primary ,it was closed after that.1970.Waiuta School. 1912.Waiuta Blackwater Mine.ca. 1910 -1920. A picturesque corner of Lake Brunner, showing the timber mill on the shore.1903.Unidentified tally clerk at Butler Bros timber mill, Hokitika. 1935.Preparing for a tramp over the rough ice of the Fox Glacier.1935.A line of intrepid tourists following a guide along an ice ridge on the Franz Josef Glacier in Westland.The largest gathering assembled in Hokitika for more than 30 years.1914.Disastrous fire in at Wallsend.1933.Two mountaineers traversing the crevassed surface of the Franz Josef Glacier in Westland.1938.Sluicing claim, Kumara.Laying of a memorial stone at Hokitika to the Westland troopers who have fallen in the Boer War.1902.Aerial photo of a small herd of deer seen from the mail plane on the Hokitika/Haast/Okuru airmail route.1935.Arthurs Pass.1912.At the top of Otira Gorge Road.1924.Map of West Coast gold townsGreymouth wharf.ca.1900-1916.ALBUM - Greymouth, during flood.October 1936.Greymouth.ca.1880`s.Hokitika Road .1873-1893.Hokitika Sample Room, Sargood Son & Ewen.1936. Westland Racing Club's midsummer meeting, held at Hokitika on January 5.1914.ALBUM - Ōtira, West Coast, Aotearoa Station, Tranz Alpine, and Otira gorge. 14 Aug 2014ALBUM - Taylorville - Blackball - Roa, Oct 2015.Album - Photos of ship strandings - and total losses on the Greymouth bar,ALBUM - Corner Tainui and Guiness Streets ,Greymouth.

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