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Families gather for the 10th anniversary of the Pike River mine disaster at the Atarau memorial near Greymouth. (Video first published November 19, 2020)
THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of
The
The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication.
“A father mourning his son bore a weathered log on his shoulder up the long, rocky track at Punakaiki’s place of death yesterday,” reporter Mike Crean wrote in
The Press on May 1, 1995.
“He sobbed deeply as he trod, and his eyes streamed. The log was his Cross; Cave Creek his Calvary.
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