Hesitating about sharing this, but I was there when AFFCO were prosecuted for Jason’s hook in the head accident when they started out trying to blame him. I was there with Forestry families when Simon Bridges was the Minister and defending his hopeless response; I was there with Pike families after 29 men died and Kate Wilkinson (then Mi…
Hesitating about sharing this, but I was there when AFFCO were prosecuted for Jason’s hook in the head accident when they started out trying to blame him. I was there with Forestry families when Simon Bridges was the Minister and defending his hopeless response; I was there with Pike families after 29 men died and Kate Wilkinson (then Minister) stood on the stage with Peter Whittall, who has never been prosecuted, I was at the tangi of Baldy in Wairoa after he died in the chiller at the AFFCO works. So many lives ruined, so many families distraught. To this day. These things never leave you.
Nga mihi for sharing that Darien. I've been researching some Welsh family history on my paternal side of late. My paternal family lived in Pontypridd a once booming coal mining town. The devastation to the environment and the work place accidents were horrific. The owners always put their profits before their workers safety and well-being. I've often thought this government seem determined to drag us back to the 1950's but now I'm thinking it's more like the Victorian era!
Kia ora David : I come from a mining family too. My grandfather, who later became a Labour MP in NZ started work as a pit boy in a mine in Northumberland at the age of 12. He worked at Millington Mine in NZ after being injured at the Somme in WW1. I often marvel at his journey from Pit Boy to Labour MP in the MJ Savage/Peter Fraser government. I wish I had known him better but I was just tiny when he died.
Hesitating about sharing this, but I was there when AFFCO were prosecuted for Jason’s hook in the head accident when they started out trying to blame him. I was there with Forestry families when Simon Bridges was the Minister and defending his hopeless response; I was there with Pike families after 29 men died and Kate Wilkinson (then Minister) stood on the stage with Peter Whittall, who has never been prosecuted, I was at the tangi of Baldy in Wairoa after he died in the chiller at the AFFCO works. So many lives ruined, so many families distraught. To this day. These things never leave you.
Nga mihi for sharing that Darien. I've been researching some Welsh family history on my paternal side of late. My paternal family lived in Pontypridd a once booming coal mining town. The devastation to the environment and the work place accidents were horrific. The owners always put their profits before their workers safety and well-being. I've often thought this government seem determined to drag us back to the 1950's but now I'm thinking it's more like the Victorian era!
Kia ora David : I come from a mining family too. My grandfather, who later became a Labour MP in NZ started work as a pit boy in a mine in Northumberland at the age of 12. He worked at Millington Mine in NZ after being injured at the Somme in WW1. I often marvel at his journey from Pit Boy to Labour MP in the MJ Savage/Peter Fraser government. I wish I had known him better but I was just tiny when he died.