Fireworks victims get help

One of three spectators who were taken bleeding from the southern grandstand following the fireworks display prior to the kick off in the New Zealand Australia International test Bledisloe Cup rugby m

Rugby officials say they are committed to "making good" with the three victims of a fireworks malfunction that fired shrapnel into the stands at Eden Park a week ago, but the cause is not likely to be revealed for a number of weeks.

As a result of the incident - that hospitalised one woman and required two men to be treated by paramedics - there will be no pyrotechnics at McLean Park in Napier when the All Blacks face Argentina next Saturday night.

Government health and safety watchdog, WorkSafe New Zealand, was investigating the incident, before the All Blacks v Wallabies test, but a spokesman said the findings were unlikely to be ready for a few weeks.

New Zealand Rugby Union spokesman Nick Brown said he would not speculate while the investigation was under way, but was supporting the victims.

"We continue to support the three affected people," he said.

"We remain in regular contact with them and have committed to making good their test match experience and that they are not out-of- pocket."

He would not go into detail about the nature of that compensation.

NZRU chief executive Steve Tew said this week all pyrotechnic displays would cease at all games until the problem was identified.

Martin Van Tiel, of Van Tiel Pyrotechnics, organisers of the display, said the cause was a mystery as nothing had changed since the effect was first used 15 years ago.

Dr Van Tiel had publicly apologised to the victims, and had asked the NZRU to be put in touch with them so he could apologise in person.