Ernie Abbot
Ernie Abbot
1984
The Ernie Abbot room is the Trades Hall’s Executive Committee room. It contains a poster of Ernie Abbott with the words “If blood be the price of your cursed wealth, good God we have bought it fair”. The same words were carried by a demonstration of unionists in Auckland at the time of the murder of Fred Evans in 1912.
Over the road from Trades Hall is a park where Ernie and his dog Patch would often sit. There is a plaque commemorating his death. The tree planted in this memorial is a totara.