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Kōrero: Stock market

Reefton exchange rooms, late 1870s

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Reefton exchange rooms, late 1870s

There was a quartz-mining boom on the West Coast in the 1870s. Most of the brokers at Reefton who traded in mining shares had their offices in this building on Broadway.

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David Grant, Stock market – First stock exchanges, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23670/reefton-exchange-rooms-late-1870s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Grant, i tāngia i te 4 March 2010.