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Wednesday 12 December 2012
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Gold miner claims gear sabotaged Andrew Board
TEDDY PARTY AT WASHBOURN: Richmond’s Helena Pope with daughter Pela, 2, at the Tiny Tot’s Toys and Teddies Party held at Washbourn Gardens on Sunday. Children young and old attended the annual event, put on by the Tasman District Council, and community recreation officer Paul McConachie says it was the biggest turnout
the event has seen in its seven year history. Families parked up on blankets to watch local singer songwriter Kath Bee perform and the children made the most of the amusements available such as cricket gear, balloon animals, face painting, a bouncy castle and an obstacle course. Photo: Sinead Ogilvie.
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Tensions appear to be at boiling point in Murchison as a local gold mining company says it has been the target of serious sabotage. TGG Mining director and shareholder David Thurlow has issued a $26,000 reward for information leading to an arrest as he believes mining equipment and stock have been damaged and the lives of employees endangered. But police say they haven’t received any recent complaints from David Thurlow or the company which it described as “pretty odd”, considering the allegations. TGG Mining was issued with resource consent in 2009 to mine for gold on the Matakitaki River. Since then there has been allegations of non-payment by at least one contractor. David Thurlow hung up the phone when Waimea Weekly attempted to reach him for com-
ment this week and later directed it to the Murchison News, where a full list of the alleged incidents were printed. Information supplied to the News lists damage to three excavators, welders, compressors, pumps, conveyor belts, a dredge, the engineering shop, fuel tanks being contaminated and gold being stolen. Off site, the company claims employers, employees and their partners have been subject to lewd and offensive behaviour, have been followed and intimated in their vehicles, tried to be forced off the road, swerved into at high speeds , forcing them to take evasive action. It believes fences have been cut so stock would get out onto the road at night, tractors fuel tanks have been contaminated, a road vehicle’s brakes were sabotaged and a milk silo was damaged. “We have recently installed a surveillance system at the mine site after two people were spotted watching the area,” it said.
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