This web feature was written by Simon Nathan and produced by the NZ History team.
Assistance and advice on the text and illustrations is gratefully acknowledged from Jim Gardner, Tony Hurst, Paul Mahoney, Graeme McClare, Malcolm McKinnon, Judith Nathan and Len Richardson.
Links
- West Coast region, Te Ara - Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- Seddonville Branch (Wikipedia) - an article on the history of the Seddonville railway line
- 'Coal from Westland' - documentary (NZ ON Screen)
Books and print media
- D.I. Harmon, Yesterdays of Seddonville, 1873-1975, Buller Printing, Westport, 1976
- S. Nathan, W.L. Leask & A.M. Sherwood, 'Coal resources of the north Buller sector, Buller Coalfield', New Zealand Geological Survey client report 90/27, 1990
- Tom Moynihan, 'The future of hydraulic coal mining', Proceedings of the mining and quarrying conference, Paper 70, University of Otago, Dunedin, 1956
