Blackball is a small town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 29 km from Greymouth. Elevation is approximately 100 metres.
Blackball Miners Strike Memorial
The hotel known as "Formerly the Blackball Hilton"
Cover of Bill Pearson's 1963 novel, Coal Flat.
Dobson is a small town on the banks of the Grey River in the South Island of New Zealand. It is 10 kilometres east from the river's mouth at Greymouth. The settlement of Taylorville is across the rive
State Highway 7 outside Dobson