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Fred Evans procession
A memorial procession for the striker killed at Waihī in 1912.
Grave of Fred Evans
Grave of Fred Evans who was killed during the 1912 Waihi miners strike
Fred Evans

Fred Evans' violent death during the 1912 Waihi miners' strike made this otherwise obscure figure into a martyr of the New Zealand labour movement. He remains one of only two people to be killed during an industrial dispute in this country's history.

Evans was born on 11 February 1881 in the Australian mining town of Ballarat, Victoria. He married in 1906 and three years later came to New Zealand with his wife and two small children. By 1912 he was working as a stationary-engine driver at the Waihi goldmine.

Striker fatally wounded at Waihī
Striking worker Fred Evans was seriously injured in a clash with police and strike-breakers during a bitter industrial dispute at the goldmining town of Waihī. He died the following day.
Memoriam ode to Fred Evans - 1912 Waihi strike
In Memoriam ode to Frederick George Evans who was killed during the 1912 Waihi strike
'Black Tuesday' - the 1912 Waihi strike
On 'Black Tuesday', 12 November 1912, in the midst of a bitter six-month strike by miners in the small New Zealand goldmining town of Waihi, striker Fred Evans was killed - one of only two fatalities in an industrial dispute in New Zealand's history.
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