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HERA podcast
series tackles
tough questions
New Zealand metals-based
industry organisation has
launched a bi-weekly podcast
series, Stirring the Pot.
The free podcast launches today
with three episodes on subjects
as diverse as the future of manufacturing
in New Zealand,
innovation as a driver of the global
economy and what’s required to
build a thriving metals industry.
HERA ceo Troy Coyle will faciliate
most of the half-hour long
discussions, which promise to
take on the big issues facing
the metals industry. She says,
“There are many challenges
facing our industry and, equally,
many opinions on how we should
tackle them. Stirring the Pot is a
forum to discuss and challenge
viewpoints with leaders, experts
and influencers who are shaping
the metals industry here and
around the world. We’re going to
be talking the tough stuff – the
things that keep us metalheads
up at night.”
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Chinese
Anzac
brothers’
groundbreaking
kiwi legacy
A century ago, two New Zealand-Chinese
University of Canterbury engineering
brothers, turned ANZAC soldiers,
left their ground-breaking legacy
for generations to come.
Almost exactly 100 years ago, New
Zealand troops based at Sling Camp in
England rioted. To keep the soldiers occupied
after the riot, a 128-metre-long
kiwi – surveyed by a Canterbury engineering
student and ANZAC soldier –
was carved into the chalk hillside above
the camp, where it remains to this day.
Sergeant Major Victor Low, who was an
engineering student at Canterbury University
College (now the University of
Canterbury) served in World War I, following
in the trailblazing footsteps of his
big brother, Norman.
NZ’s first Chinese university graduate
– Norman Low
Norman Kwong Tsu Low (English spelling
varies), became the first person
of Chinese descent in New Zealand
to graduate from university, when in
Christchurch in 1909, he graduated
from Canterbury as an engineer (BE
Elect). His younger brother, Victor, followed
him to study engineering at Canterbury
and both joined the army during
the First World War.
Born in Dunedin in 1887, Norman was
the second son of the well-known Lo
Keong family – regarded as the first Chinese
family to settle in New Zealand. After
Norman graduated from Canterbury
University College, he worked in London
as a civil engineer before enlisting in the
NZEF’s British Division in 1914 at age
27. (He gives his age at enlistment as
27 11/12 years, which suggests he was
born in October 1887.)
He was sent to Gallipoli on 12 April
1915, arriving sometime around 25
April, and is believed to be one of only a
few New Zealand-Chinese soldiers who
fought at Gallipoli. It appears that he left
Gallipoli for England on the 17 September
1915. Hospitalised in Malta, he went
on to serve in Egypt and France. He was
gassed in the later Somme offensives
and returned to New Zealand on the SS
Hororata in early 1919. In total, Norman
served abroad for four and a half years.
Both brothers seem to have been in
Sling Camp in 1919.
Chinese ANZAC’s lasting kiwi legacy –
Victor Low
Like his big brother, Victor Thomas Low
studied engineering at Canterbury Uni-
1905 Norman Low