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The Greymouth Evening Star was one of many newspapers founded on the West Coast during the West Coast gold rush.It is New Zealand's sixth oldest daily newspaper and was founded by James Snyder Browne as a four-page daily on 18 March 1866. [2]
The newspaper was a rarity in New Zealand in that it openly declared its left-wing affiliation. The West Coast was a leader in the founding of the labour movement in New Zealand, from its early days as the country's biggest coal mining region to the founding of the New Zealand Labour Party in Blackball in 1916.
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Blackball is a small town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 29 km from Greymouth. Elevation is approximately 100 metres. Elevation is approximately 100 metres. Blackball was a centre of New Zealand radicalism and workers' militancy.
Fletcher was born in 1927 to Alec and Isabella Graham, part-owners of Franz Josef Glacier Hotel at Franz Josef.Her parents had met in England during World War I; her mother was English and her father from South Westland.
Born in Greymouth on 3 February 1936, Finlay was the son of Jack "Doc" Finlay. [1] [2]Trained by his father, Graham Finlay won four New Zealand national amateur boxing championship titles: the light welterweight title in 1954; and the welterweight title in consecutive years from 1955 to 1957. [2]
The Pike River Mine disaster was a coal mining accident that began on 19 November 2010 in the Pike River Mine, 46 km (29 mi) northeast of Greymouth, in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island following a methane explosion at approximately 3:44 pm (NZDT, UTC+13).
At the first meeting of the council in the following week, Masters was elected the first mayor of Greymouth by his fellow councillors. [12] [13] Barry Dallas was mayor of Greymouth from 1966 to 1968, and from 1980 until the borough's abolition in 1989. He then became the inaugural mayor of the new Grey District.