Published Articles about the Runanga Miners’ Hall
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"Community works to restore historical miners’ hall" – RNZ Afternoons, 25 Oct 2024
Trust member Jo Hart speaks to Jesse about its history and importance today, as well as a new fundraising effort for the hall…
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"International Standing for the Rūnanga Miners’ Hall" – Labour History, Number 127, No 2024
Deyell & Hart. The iconic façade of the Miners’ Hall at Rūnanga – the final built remnant of the early twentieth-century socialist vanguards’ legacy – has weathered the passage of time…
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"International Standing for the Runanga Miners’ Hall" – Labour History Project, Bulletin 90, 2024
By Russell Deyell and Aisla Hart. On the 30th of November 2023, 26 delegates attended a 4.5-hour workshop to hear the case for the Rūnanga Miners’ Hall (RMH) to be considered for UNESCO World Heritage status…
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"A Temple of Labour" – Heritage New Zealand, Spring 2013, Issue 130
A small building with a sizeable impact on the labour movement in New Zealand, the Runanga Miners' Hall has been registered as a Category 1 historic place…
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"Runanga Miners' Hall Update" – Labour History Project, Bulletin 64, 2015
Runanga Miners' Hall Update: Lotteries Success, Community Engagement and a Special Supporter.
By Angela Stratford, Runanga Miners' Hall Project Committee… -
"Runanga Miners Hall: the early years" – Labour History Project, Newsletter 55, August 2012
By Peter Clayworth. The small West Coast town of Runanga, in the north of the Grey Valley, boasts one of New Zealand labour history’s most significant buildings…
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"Runanga - Home of Champions", 2005 Centennial Publication
Of all the institutions in Runanga that left a lasting impression on generations of people, the Miners' Hall has to be foremost…
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"Runanga Recalled", A history of Runanga, Dunollie & Rewanui, by John Flood, 1996
Its uses were many and varied, from union meetings, political rallies, visiting speakers, concerts, the horticultural show, the Childrens Fancy Dress Bal, dances and reunions ot name but a few…
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Runanga Borough Council 75th Anniversary, 1986 publication
The glamour mineral, gold, which paved the way for the foundation of many West Coast centres, was absent when Runanga was formed…
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“Historic Buildings of New Zealand”, Methuen Publications, written by Brian Wood, 1983
The Runanga Miners' Hall was officially opened on 4 December 1908. The Socialist Union leadership under its president Robert Semple, provided the initiative…