New Zealand - Dobson
- Dobson, located 6 miles from Greymouth.
- The coalmine is on the right on the banks of the Grey River.
- 1/3/1928
- A. Bathgate Photographer
- Originally published in "The Auckland Weekly News"
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- Dobson is a small town on the banks of the Grey River in the South Island of New Zealand.
- The town is named for the surveyor George Dobson, who was murdered at this site in 1866. He was killed in a bungled robbery by a gang who had mistaken him for a gold buyer carrying gold from the nearby Arnold goldfield.
- The Dobson mine was opened in 1919, and closed in 1968. It was the site of one of the country's worst mining disasters. Nine men were killed in an explosion at the mine in 1926.