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Kōrero: Irish

Building railways, Hokitika

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Building railways, Hokitika

As in other new worlds, there was a good proportion of Irish among New Zealand’s railway workers. These navvies are working on railways on the West Coast in 1908.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Joseph Quinn Collection

Reference: 1/2-179289; G

by James Ring and L. A. Inkster

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Jock Phillips, Irish – Settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/58/building-railways-hokitika (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.