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...
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...
From crushing plant to directors’ table, Ollie Turner’s ongoing involvement in quarrying and contracting has been from bottom to top down. He talks to HUGH DE LACY.
For all the kerfuffle surrounding the introduction of a new extractives regulatory framework in December 2013, the reality is far less formidable for quarry operators...
