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Ngahere is a locality in the Grey District of the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.[1] The 2013 New Zealand census gave the population of Ngahere and its surrounding area as 363, an increase of 5.2% or 18 people since the 2006 census.[2] Ngahere is located on the south bank of the Grey River, and State Highway 7 and the Stillwater–Westport Line (SWL) railway pass through the village.

Ngahere
Ngahere
Coordinates: 42°23′57″S 171°26′16″E
Country	New Zealand
Region	West Coast
District	Grey District
Population  (2013)
• Total	363

Railway

The railway reached Ngahere when an extension was built from Brunner on 1 August 1889, and it was the line's terminus until a further section to Ahaura was opened on 14 February 1890. On 1 August 1910, Ngahere became a railway junction when the Blackball Branch was opened, and this branch line operated until a flood in 1966 destroyed its bridge across the Grey River. The branch was formally closed on 21 February 1966.[3] The next year, passenger trains through Ngahere on the SWL were cancelled; since this time, freight trains of coal have been the predominant traffic through Ngahere.[4]

Churches

Sacred Heart Church

Sacred Heart Church is a Catholic church in Ngahere, within the Greymouth St Patrick's parish.[5] The church was built in 1960, to replace an earlier church of the same name. Originally erected as St Patrick's in the gold-mining settlement of Notown in 1866, the kitset kauri church was relocated to Ngahere in 1922 after Notown had become a ghost town, and was relocated again to Shantytown Heritage Park after the present Sacred Heart Church was built.[6][7][8]

St Luke's

St Luke's is a small former Anglican church, opposite the Ngahere sawmill on State Highway 7, built in timber to plans from Ralph Tyler of Greymouth.[9] The foundation stone was laid on 21 September 1952 by the Bishop of Nelson, Percival Stephenson,[9] and the church was dedicated in 1954.[6] The church was sold in about 2010.[6]

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