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Spanning more than 150 years, this collection tells...
A collection celebrating the 30th anniversary of...
A documentary series about accident investigators
Docudrama about another West Coast disaster
Also directed by Juliet Monaghan
Documentary about the aftermath of the Pike River tragedy
Film inspired by another famous NZ tragedy
A Greenstone documentary on the devastating effects of fire
Greenstone documentary series about disasters at sea
Writer Colin McRae was a prime mover behind this series
Another man-made tragedy on the coast
A West Coast mining disaster
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There is a very good video about this event made by Greenstone.
If you cannot get that video I could lend you a copy of mine.
Andrew McCarthy John Paul II HS Greymouth
Meanwhile DoC's head office was designed to be very small with the entire organisation de-centralised and not communicating with itself, probably because trying to coordinate all the bits and pieces left over from the early departments would've been expensive and demanding up-front. There wasn't even a clear definitive record of what DoC was responsible for or where the money and resources were going, which means that even if the government had wanted to drop more resources on DoC (which it didn't), DoC would've had a very tough time making a case for it. The only thing that disappoints me from the outcome is that DoC's upper management and the Minister of Conservation weren't held more to account for having let DoC develop into such a state.
A COMMENT FOR DOC. TELL YOUR NEW STAFF THE STORY OF CAVE CREEK, AND ADMIT FULL RESPONSIBILITY.