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The long farewell

nder a section entitled, “Health, safety and well-being”, the Pike River Recovery Agency’s latest annual report says, “As an Agency we need to know when to call it ‘quits’ if that is what needs to be done.” From the context, the agency is referring to the need to know when to give up on particular tasks it is undertaking, rather than whether to give up entirely on trying to re-enter the Pike

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