Reaction to the Royal Commission on the Pike River explosions from former UK mines inspector Bob Stevenson and family spokesman Bernie Monk has described NZ mining practices as 'third world' and an 'embarrassment to you'. They say that if this had happened overseas 'your men would be out'.
Pike River: 'We all ought to be ashamed'
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