1909 was Maud L. G. Beresford Wilkinson. Its main rival, the Inangahua Times, was established by William Joseph Potts in 1875. Potts was editor of Ahaura's Grey Valley Times in 1873, and in 1874 he started the short-lived Reefton Courier and Inangahua Advertiser which survived only to the end of the year, and was the predecessor of the Times. The Times initially appeared three times a week, but by 1891 was a daily. Potts owned the Times until his death in 1901, and his wife Mary Potts was editor from 1897 to 1905. For a short time Reefton, with a population of just 2000 and a circulation area of 4648, was home to three competing daily papers: the third, the Reefton Guardian, was first published in 1888, and was bought out by the Inangahua Times in 1894. All three papers were served for more than fifty years by the compositor, editor, and publisher James Noble, who started at the Guardian and eventually became editor and publisher of the Times. The Herald succumbed to the Depression in 1936 and merged with the Times in 1936. After James Noble the Times was run by Ernest Nicholson until it ceased publication on 6 June 1942, a casualty of war shortages. It was revived in 1946 by Reefton's Presbyterian minister Rev. C. R. (Bob) Sprackett as the Inangahua-Murchison Times, printed in Greymouth, which survived as a weekly until 1956. Locally received radio stations include repeaters of both The Hits from Greymouth and Coast FM from Westport. The Greymouth Star newspaper is also received daily in the town. Notable people Marty Banks – rugby union player, born and grew up in Reefton Amy Castle – museum curator and entomologist, born in Reefton Myra Cohen – barber, dental assistant, entertainer and milliner Elisabeth Croll – anthropologist, born in Reefton Phill Jones – basketball player, grew up in Reefton Melanie Nolan – labour and gender historian, born in Reefton Edward Smyrk – cricketer, born in Reefton Gallery References External links Reefton i-SITE Visitor Centre Department of Conservation – Reefton short walks Reefton Area School Buller District Populated places in the West Coast, New Zealand West Coast Gold Rush