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Wearing full body protection and a sealed breathing unit, asbestos removal worker Chimpy Browne scrapes ceiling material containing asbestos from a Wellington flat in 1998. It has been illegal to import asbestos into New Zealand since 1991, but before that thousands of tonnes were used in textured ceilings, cement roofs, fireproof cladding and other building materials.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1998/3469/10
by John Nicholson
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