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Westland Recreation Centre

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Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Westland Recreation Centre
Phone:
+64 3-768 9076

Hours:
Sunday7am - 7pm
Monday5am - 10pm
Tuesday5am - 10pm
Wednesday5am - 10pm
Thursday5am - 10pm
Friday5am - 10pm
Saturday7am - 7pm


Blackball is a small town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 29 km from Greymouth. The town was named after the Black Ball Shipping Line, which leased land in the area to mine for coal. Blackball is a centre of New Zealand radicalism and workers' militancy. It is credited as the birthplace of the New Zealand Labour Party, which followed the 1908 miners 'cribtime' strike, at ten weeks the longest in New Zealand history. In the 1913 Great Strike, Blackball miners were the last to return to work, in 1914. During the strike they had picketed miners in nearby Brunner and had burnt down the secretary of the 'arbitration' union's home. In 1925 the headquarters of the Communist Party of New Zealand moved to Blackball from Wellington. The pit closed in 1964. As of 2006, the resident population was 330.
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