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… to Morrinsville until October 1884. In the 1880s the Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway Co. began the construction … this was opened for through traffic on 8 December 1894. The Thames branch line was opened from Morrinsville to Te Aroha … on 1 March 1886, to Paeroa on 20 December 1895, and to Thames on 19 December 1898. On 9 November 1905 a branch from …
… transferred to Auckland. Almost immediately he was sent to Thames where he intervened, singlehanded, to disarm the … Land League, prepared the way for the proclamation of the Thames Goldfield. In June 1867 he was appointed Warden at Thames, and his capable administration enabled the field to …
… vicinity of Waihi – in his journal. He visited the Firth of Thames in HMS Coromandel during 1820, and on 20 July with Te … A few days later the party returned to the Firth of Thames along the same route. Gold seekers appear to have … of the industry. The railway from Frankton Junction to Thames was opened for traffic to Paeroa on 20 December 1895 …
… of the 2,000 diggers. In 1867, however, the rush to the Thames field induced a rapid increase in population so that … peak. The population was concentrated around the Waihi, Thames, and Coromandel goldfields, the other communities …
… 25 miles south-east of Auckland City, extend from Firth of Thames in the east to almost the Great South Road in the … beyond which the ranges are terminated by the Firth of Thames. The Hunua Ranges first came into scientific …
… from 1883 much of this land passed into the hands of the Thames Valley Land Company. The first settler in the … in the late 1880s but the railway, which was begun by the Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway Co., was the most … 50,987 acres, which had previously been acquired from the Thames Valley Land Co. by the Crown and which included town …
… named Wilkinson in acquiring the Advertiser newspaper at Thames, where gold mining was bringing an influx of wealth … ill health. by Alfred Fearon Grace, Journalist, Auckland. Thames Star , 12 Feb 1954. …
… conceived as a shallow scoop draining towards the Firth of Thames by means of the Piako, Waitoa, and Waihou Rivers. The … 10 years later it had reached 7,104. The upper part of the Thames Valley around Matamata, being better drained, was …
… about treatment methods. Schools were set up at Lawrence, Thames (with branches at Coromandel, Waihi, Karangahake, Te … Minister of Mines in 1952, only eight remained-Coromandel, Thames, Huntly, Westport, Reefton, Runanga, Kaitangata, and Ohai. Only Thames, and to a lesser extent Reefton, achieved anything …
… Joseph Gould, who was lock keeper of Hambleden Lock on the Thames. He entered the employment of the Great Western …