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‘Fantastic’ first ever freezing workers reunion

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The first ever freezing workers reunion for former workers at GRC went off extremely well on Saturday. From left are Tom Stevens (speaker), Robbie Blair (organiser), Wayne Muir (speaker), Tauha “Nick” Nikora (speaker), Wayne Tautau (organiser) and Doug Symes (organiser).Picture by Liam Clayton

More than 180 former workers at the Gisborne Refrigerating Company took a walk down memory lane on Saturday in the freezing workers reunion.

“It was a fantastic afternoon at the Cosmopolitan Club,” co-organiser Robbie Blair said,

It was the first time since the closure of the Weddel Kaiti works in late 1994 that a reunion has been held for the hundreds of men, and some women, who worked ther...

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Penny Michael
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5 December 2023
Wow, it's so nice that you guys had this reunion - there would have been a lot of stories. Freezing Works was a big part of our lives back then, like the rest of Gisborne ❤️

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