Crushington, New Zealand

Crushington
Crushington
	Inanagahua River at Crushington
	Crushington
	Coordinates: 42°8′24″S 171°53′37″E / 42.14000°S 171.89361°E
Country	New Zealand
Region	West Coast
District	Buller District
Electorates	West Coast-Tasman; Te Tai Tonga

Crushington is a town beside the Inangahua River in the West Coast region of New Zealand. It the birthplace of Olympic athlete John Edward "Jack" Lovelock.

The settlement is located three kilometres inland from Reefton, on the Lewis Pass road (State Highway 7) between the West Coast and north Canterbury.

The town was originally settled for quartz-mining at the Globe Mine, and was named for the pervasive sound of quartz being crushed by twenty stamps driven by a turbine water wheel.^[1]

Reed quotes G.G.M. Mitchell: "Hour after hour, day after day, month after month for several years this crushing-battery kept pounding away at its job. Then one day the mine closed down and the battery stopped working at midnight. So inured had the children of Crushington become to the tremendous noise made by the battery that local history records that there was no sleep for any child of Crushington, so strange was the effect of the unusual silence on them."^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Reed, A. W. (1979). The Reed dictionary of New Zealand place names (2002 ed.). Auckland [N.Z.]: Reed. ISBN 0-7900-0761-4. OCLC 49290681.

[:0-1] Reed, A. W. (1979). The Reed dictionary of New Zealand place names (2002 ed.). Auckland [N.Z.]: Reed. ISBN 0-7900-0761-4. OCLC 49290681.

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