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Waihī miners’ strike: crowd of strikers

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Waihī miners’ strike: crowd of strikers

These two boys are running towards a crowd that had assembled during the Waihī miners’ strike of 1912.

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Paul Monin, Hauraki–Coromandel region – Gold mining, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30414/waihi-miners-strike-crowd-of-strikers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Monin, published 13 December 2010, updated 1 April 2016.