Gold Mining
Attitude gets the job
Driving our biggest mining machine Nineteen-year-old Ella didn’t think she stood a chance, when she applied to be a forklift operator at a quarry. Story supplied by AB LIME. ELLA NELSON COMES from a family of farmers and machinery operators and was consciously applying for jobs in agricultural machinery. But all she was getting back was a...
Industry born and bred
The New Zealand that quarryman Roger Jordan returned to after more than a decade in Hong Kong was very different from the country he’d left behind. Hugh de Lacy talks to him. On the eve of the return of the British colony of Hong Kong to China in July 1997, Roger Jordan was so concerned about the aftermath that he sent his family home to New...
Attitude gets the job driving our biggest miner machine
Nineteen-year-old Ella didn’t think she stood a chance, when she applied to be a forklift operator at a quarry. Story supplied by AB Lime. Ella Nelson comes from a family of farmers and machinery operators and was consciously applying for jobs in agricultural machinery. But all she was getting back was a steady stream of emails that said;...
Saluting a veteran
When Keith Tahu retired at the end of last year from Bellingham Quarries in Kaitaia, where he worked with three generations of the Bellingham family, the directors were there to salute him. By David Bellingham. When my brother Brian and I started work at Bellingham Quarries in 1976, 42 years ago, Keith Tahui had already been working here for...
National Excavator Operator Competition 2019 results
The winners of the CCNZ’s 25th National Excavator Operator Competition held in Feilding last month were: Riki Lum, Northland (Clements Contractors) First Place and Contractor magazine’s One-Day -Job; Jim Beamsley, Manawatu (Central Demolition) Second Place; Josh Keane, Otago (Southroads) Third Place; and Jason Toomer-Reti, Auckland (ICB...
The stone mason and the tree
They cut the old totara tree down in 1949, but the quarry named after it continued to live on in a raft of glorious white buildings here and overseas. Hugh de Lacy tells the story. It was probably not the biggest or most handsome totara tree in North Otago, but it had a defining role in the development of not only a signature local industry but...
