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helping to rebuild the city’s east
You were the manager of Merivale
Mall from 1999 to 2004 and
instrumental in setting up the Re:Start
mall. What skills have you picked up
that you might see yourself using in
this role?
My management style at Merivale was
quite different, I got heavily involved
with the businesses. I created a lot of
activity, promotions and over a fourand-a-half-year
period I doubled the
centre’s turnover and I increased the
foot traffic by 32 per cent. They thought
I’d be the right person to manage the
centre because I was a retailer myself.
Just getting down on the ground,
working with the retailers. They’d
developed a very negative view of the
world and that was self-fulfilling so their
turnovers weren’t increasing, so it was
about working with them to change
their thinking, change the message that
they were putting across the counter
and working just as hard as they were
to try and boost the business. Over the
four-and-a-half-years, we grew to be like
a big family.
Do you see yourself as quite a handson
person?
Absolutely, and same with Re:Start,
that was very grassroots. Hard work
to get that project off the ground, even
harder to make it successful. Most
people think it was successful straight
away, but it was very hard to get the
confidence back of people here in
Christchurch to come back into the city.
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You must be very proud of that
achievement?
Very proud, but you don’t do it alone,
there was a group of us that set out to do
the project. I came up with the idea but
the idea’s only one thing – unless you’ve
got people to help you realise it, it’s just
an idea.
So, do you have any special links to
New Brighton?
I lived here for a couple of years about
12 years ago. As a kid, we used to come
out here to the beach. My brothers and
I used to have a routine on hot days:
We’d go to Jellie Park in the morning,
swim there till about 11am, bus out to
Brighton, go for a swim then back to
Jellie Park. And, of course, as a family
we used to come out here on a Saturday.
I see you’re a former Burnside High
School student. Are you Christchurch
born and bred?
Not quite. I was born in Gore and
moved to Invercargill with my family
when I was four, then moved here when
I was 11. We came up in 1974, when the
Commonwealth Games were on.
Were you at school with John Key?
Not in the same class but the same
year. Don’t remember him at all. I did
play at school assemblies in the band
back then, though, and when we got the
cheque from John Key for Re:Start, I said
we were at the same school, same year.
He said he thought the name rang a
bell. He remembered me from the band
playing.
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Small world. So where do you call
home now and who does the cooking?
Just out of central Christchurch. I’ve
been there 10 years and live there with
my wife Denise. It’s a second marriage
so she has a couple of kids (they’ve
left home) and I’ve a got a 17-year-old
daughter at Christchurch Girls’ High.
We share the cooking, I usually do the
meat and my wife does the veges – divvy
up the responsibilities.
You’ve held quite a few communitybased
roles and currently serve on
boards and trusts around the city.
Where does this interest in community
come from?
A friend of mine once said: ‘You just
like getting involved,’ and he’s probably
right.
Must have been a heck of a shock
when you weren’t re-elected to the city
council?
Yes and no. I could have stood in
central and would have won that
without any problem at all. I chose to
stand in that (Heathcote) Ward. I have
my own personal reasons for why I did
that and I knew it would be a trickier job
getting re-elected, but I was willing to
take that risk. I’d done a lot of work out
there you see, and I don’t shy away from
challenges. I’d make the same decision
again.
Do you see yourself standing for
council in the future?
Look, I never say never. You never
know in this life.
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