Tunnel boring machine - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 10 May 2021 04:15:39 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Tunnel boring machine - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Catholic blessing for Auckland's tunnel boring machine launch https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/05/10/blessing-auckland-tunnel-boring-machine/ Mon, 10 May 2021 07:54:54 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=136059 A milestone for Tamaki Makaurau has been reached with the launch of the tunnel boring machine at New Zealand's largest infrastructure project, the $4.4 billion City Rail Link. Father Christopher Denham of the Catholic St Patrick and St Joseph's Cathedral blessed the machine - named Dame Whina Cooper - and the teams who will operate Read more

Catholic blessing for Auckland's tunnel boring machine launch... Read more]]> A milestone for Tamaki Makaurau has been reached with the launch of the tunnel boring machine at New Zealand's largest infrastructure project, the $4.4 billion City Rail Link.

Father Christopher Denham of the Catholic St Patrick and St Joseph's Cathedral blessed the machine - named Dame Whina Cooper - and the teams who will operate her in acknowledgment to St Barbara, the patron saint of miners and others working underground.

The other significant wahine acknowledged this morning was Maori rights champion, Kahurangi Dame Whina Cooper. Read more

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