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Ocean Beach union officials

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Ocean Beach union officials

Tony Taurima and Colin Manson, union officials at the Ocean Beach freezing works in Southland, look thoughtful before a shed meeting in 1984. There was a large number of Māori workers at the plant, as the management had filled labour shortages with Māori workers from Northland and the East Coast in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Cybèle Locke, Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement – Māori and industrial unions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22946/ocean-beach-union-officials (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Cybèle Locke, published 4 March 2010.