Story: West Coast places

More links and websites

• Buller District Council

  The website of the Buller District Council.

• Grey District Council

  The website of the Grey District Council.

• History House Museum

  The museum in Greymouth.

• The 1947 Greymouth beer boycott

  This page on the NZ History website backgrounds the boycott and pub culture on the West Coast.

• Shantytown

  A re-creation of a West Coast gold-mining town, near Greymouth.

• Waiuta – through they eyes of a miner

  This page on the NZHistory website provides information about the history of the West Coast town and its resident photographer Joseph Divis.

• West Coast information centres

  A directory of information centres on the West Coast.

• Westland District Council

  The website of the Westland District Council.

More suggestions and sources

• Apse, Andis. South-west New Zealand World Heritage Area: Te Wahipounamu. Nelson: Craig Potton, 1997.
• Crawshaw, Norman. The first wave: a history of the early days of coal in Buller. Westport: N. Crawshaw, 1999.
• On Denniston: coal from the clouds [videorecording]. Producer Hugh Macdonald; directors Hugh Macdonald and David Sims. Wellington: Memory Line Productions, 1993.
• The ghost town ball [videorecording]. Lower Hutt: NZ National Film Unit, 1986.
• May, Philip Ross. Gold town, Ross, Westland. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1970.
• Waiuta, 1906–1951: the gold mine, the town, the people. Reefton: Friends of Waiuta, 1986.
• Wood, Brian. Disaster at Brunner: the coalmine tragedy at Brunnerton, NZ, 26 March 1896. 2nd ed. Greymouth: B. Wood, 1998.