Posts Tagged ‘Marsden Point’
Julie and I have been back to the church where we got married in 1987, St Paul’s in Paihia in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. I met Julie in Whangarei while I was working as a pipe-fitter on the Marsden Point Oil Refinery expansion construction job. When we met, my parents had moved […]
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Crude Oil
Revenge is a dish best served cold. From 1983 to 1986 I worked as a pipe-fitter on the expansion project at Marsden Point oil refinery in New Zealand. During the shutdown, I worked with a trades assistant who told me he enjoyed working with me, because I was nicer to him than the boilermaker he’d […]
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I got the feeling things had come full circle in 2008. Before I got into radio, in fact before I became an air-conditioning mechanic, I worked as a pipefitter on an oil refinery construction site in New Zealand. I was 18 when I first started on the site, it was 1983. I stayed there till […]
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Tags: Action Television, AFTRS, Aircheck, Broadcasting, Construction, Global Warming, Insulation, Lagging, Marsden Point, New Zealand, Oil Refinary, Ted Parker, TFM Radio
Although I was thousands of miles from home, there was something familiar about Kalgoorlie. I presented the 7pm to midnight shift on the local radio station 6KG, for two weeks in 1993. Kal, is a mining town in Western Australia. I found it easy to relate to the mainly blue collar workforce that listened to […]
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Tags: 6KG, Australia, Construction, Kalgoorlie, Marsden Point, New Zealand, Pipefitter, Radio, TA, Welding, Whangarei
