This web feature is based on an exhibition prepared by the Friends of Waiuta, which was compiled and curated by Les Wright, Claudia Landis and Bruce Watson.
Research material was gathered with the aid of the Department of Conservation, Hokitika. Additional text was written by Simon Nathan and the feature was produced by the
Links
- Read about Waiuta resident Ann O'Donnell in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
- Field trip to Waiuta - a field trip guide to Waiuta, from the Department of Conservation website
- Visiting Waiuta - a page about visiting Waiuta, from the Department of Conservation website
- Waiuta: the town, the mine, the people - a site with information on the town of Waiuta, and a page about the Friends of Waiuta
- West Coast region, Te Ara - Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Books and other sources
- Ed Chandler, Waiuta ghosts: the meanderings of a quartz-miner, 1st pub. 1962, Cadsonbury Publications, Christchurch, 2004
- The Ghost town ball [DVD], directed by David Sims, NZ National Film Unit, Lower Hutt, 1986
- Anne Hutchison, Our own correspondent: Waiuta 1906-51, New Zealand Forest Service, Hokitika, 1986
- Darrell Latham, The Golden Reefs: an account of the great days of quartz-mining at Reefton, Waiuta & the Lyell, 2nd edn, Nikau Press, Nelson, 1992
- Simon Nathan, Through the Eyes of a Miner: The Photography of Joseph Divis, Potton and Burton, 2016
- Tony Nightingale, ‘Journeys and stores: Waiuta in mind', in Heartlands: New Zealand historians write about where history happened, ed. by Kynan Gentry & Gavin McLean, Penguin, Auckland, 2006
- Waiuta, 1906-1951: the gold mine, the town, the people. Comp. & ed. by Gerard Morris, updated edn, Friends of Waiuta, Reefton, 1990
- Les Wright, Big River quartz mine, 1882-1942: a worthwhile speculation, Friends of Waiuta, Reefton, 1993
- Les Wright (ed.), Our own fun: childhood memories of Waiuta, Friends of Waiuta, Reefton, 2006
