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The Blackball Workingmen's Club in 2008.

More than 50 years after its formation, the Blackball WMC acts as a de facto community centre, and in 2008 it hosted meetings to celebrate the centenary of the 1908 Blackball Miners Strike. Note that the title still includes MSA – Mutual Society of Arts – although the reason for this has long since been forgotten.

This is New Zealand's newest war memorial, unveiled on 22 March 2008 during the celebrations of the centenary of the 1908 Blackball strike.

One photograph shows the stone being blessed by Father O'Connor. Grey Mayor Tony Kokshoorn and local MP Damien O'Connor are shown as well as the president of the Blackball RSA. The stone is made of Takaka Marble.