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...
The dairy boom got Southland’s Hillside Quarry up and running, and the current slump may yet slow it down. HUGH DE LACY checks out a small player in the aggregates market.
Mataura Island isn’t one – at least not any more – but the Southland locality boasts a quarry that has turned a farmer-by-trade into an aggregates supplier...
He’s the new extractives industry safety czar. He’s from the coalmines of Scotland – and his background includes a Pike River experience of his own. HUGH DE LACY talks to TONY FORSTER.
Our lawmakers completed only half the job when they dumped this country’s prescriptive workplace health and safety legislation in...
In today’s world of competing internet and print publishing it pays to maximise the strengths of your particular sector, and magazines have a huge advantage over the internet when it comes to bringing together feature themes in depth.
The feature theme in this issue is workplace health and safety, as seen from multiple...
