Losemani Fo’ou and one of six Tongan fishermen who were rescued by the German cruise ship The Albatros south of Tonga on Saturday, February 4, is thankful for their rescue and his safe return home to Tonga last night, but he’s very sad that he’s lost his little boat, and his fishing livelihood. If we were given the batteries we could have fixed our boat and returned home.
Category: Greymouth, New Zealand
Labour’s Pike River law ‘dangerous’ – Govt
Environment Minister Nick Smith has criticised a proposal by Labour leader Andrew Little on Pike River. Photo by Mark Mitchell.
Minute’s silence to be observed in Greymouth on Thursday to mark 1967 Strongman Mine disaster
Accompanied by a clergyman, mourners leave the mass grave of the 19 miners killed in the Strongman Mine disaster on January 19, 1967. Photo / New Zealand Herald archive A minute’s silence will be observed in Greymouth on Thursday to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Strongman Mine disaster which claimed 19 lives.