Descent from Disaster

S1 E32013

Strongman Mine Disaster - 1967

Episode Synopsis

West Coast's Leigh Hart revisits his old hometown of Runanga, where in 1967,it was one of several West Coast towns devastated by the Strongman Mine disaster.

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