Tokomaru Bay ghost town and historic wharf and meat-freezing works ruins, East Cape New Zealand.
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Tokomaru Bay, ghost town, and wharf overview

The historic Tokomaru Wharf
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Tokomaru ghost town and historic wharf overview

Tokomaru ghost town…the 1912 New Zealand Shipping Company LTD.
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Plaque on the 1912 Shipping Company Tokomaru ghost town building.
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Info plaque mounted on the Tokomaru ghost town building.
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Woolstore in the New Zealand Shiping Company building.
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Tokomaru wharf
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The crumbling undersides of the Tokomaru wharf.
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Rust and ruin under the Tokomaru wharf.
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The end bits of the Tokomaru wharf. Watch them sway in the waves.
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A view of the Tokomaru wharf-ruins area from the derelict water tank.
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1917 Sheep freezing works ruins and the Tokomaru wharf.
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Historic Tokomaru wharf from a local history book.
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Tokomaru ruins
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The Tokomaru Freezing works from a local history book. Note the 1910 and 1917 dates.
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1917 date on the Tokomaru Sheep Freezing ruins building.
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Inside the Tokomaru sheep-freezing ruins.
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The stream running thru the Sheep-freezing ruins.
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Tokomaru ruins row…explore inside!
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Inside the Tokomaru Ruins.
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Bank of New Zealand building.
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1929 Tokomaru ghost town building.
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The New South Wales bank at the Tokomaru ghost town site.
The New South Wales bank at the Tokomaru ghost town site, East Cape New Zealand.
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November 26, 2016 at 3:21 am |
My grand mother Ola Irene Hanrahan, nee Connelly was born here in 1908 to Edmund Connelly and Mary Theresa nee Grieves. I heard through my late father ( Ola’s son, Alston Claude Hanrahan) that Edmund ran a general shop in the town ?