The Star: October 27, 2016

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• By Tom Doudney
Thursday October 27 2016
Publisher receives honour
STAR MEDIA chairman Nick
Smith was “humbled” to receive
his Queen’s Birthday Honour
from Governor-General Dame
Patsy Reddy at Government
House last week.
Mr Smith was named an
Officer of the New Zealand
Order of Merit in the Queen’s
Birthday Honours for his services
to media and to sport.
Star Media is the publisher of
The Star, Kiwi Gardener, Rugby
News, Style, Bay Harbour News,
Pegasus Post, Nor’West News,
Southern View, Western News,
Selwyn Times, a number of other
niche print titles, broadcasts
CTV, and has Facebook page
Rise Up Christchurch.
Mr Smith is a past president
of the Otago Chamber of Commerce,
The Dunedin Club and
the Otago Cricket Association,
an Honorary Captain of the
Royal New Zealand Navy, and a
director of several South Island
media companies.
While grateful for the recognition,
he couldn’t help but think of
others who had done good work
in the community without being
recognised.
“It’s good that people do get acknowledgement
from their peers
or the Government or other
persons but there are a lot out
there who should be recognised
and aren’t,” he said.
“There are a lot of other people
in the community that probably
have had a greater bearing on
their city and life than some of
the people like myself who have
these awards.”
However, he did appreciate the
honour and said keeping CTV
operating after the February 2011
earthquake was one of the things
he was proud of.
The CTV building collapsed
in the earthquake, with 16 staff
members among the 115 dead,
and almost all of the company’s
equipment was lost.
“To get it up and running, to
give some hope to those families
who were still employed by CTV,
that took a lot of effort and it
RECOGNITION:
Nick Smith
received
his Queen’s
Birthday
Honour from
Governor-
General Dame
Patsy Reddy. ​
was a very sad time,” Mr Smith
said.
“I think perhaps more pragmatic
people than me would have
perhaps taken the money and
run. That might have been a sensible
thing to do but then again
you can’t put a figure on the
human misery that occurred in
that earthquake and the ongoing
misery if you didn’t do it.”
Another source of satisfaction
was having sponsored the 2003
New Zealand Golf Open winner
Mahal Pearce.
“I was probably the catalyst
for that guy to become the New
Zealand champion and all the
accolades that come with it,
[having] financially backed him
as a young person showing great
talent.”
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Pavilion plan for Avon
• By Bridget Rutherford
A SMALL pavilion that would
operate similar to the Antigua
Boatsheds could be built on the
former Oxford Hotel site.
Otakaro Ltd is working with
an organisation on a potential
development on the Colombo St
site, which sits in the Avon River
Precinct.
It comes after Otakaro put
out a request for development
proposals looking for interested
parties to enter into a lease agreement
for the site and establish
the pavilion. It closed in July.
An Otakaro spokesman said
it could not provide further information
on the plan currently,
given the commercial nature of
• By Bridget Rutherford
ADDINGTON’S AMI Stadium
will need to be gone no later
than March 2028, unless a
replacement facility is built
before then.
Under the new Christchurch
Replacement District Plan,
new rules show the temporary
stadium needs to be removed
no later than three months from
December 31, 2027.
That is unless a replacement
venue is operating before then,
The Star
the discussions.
“The site sits within the Avon
River Precinct and any development
will be designed to draw
visitors and locals into the central
city.”
However, the development
has been accounted for in the
Christchurch Replacement
District Plan. In a submission
on the plan, the now-defunct
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery
Authority said it wanted a
pavilion up to 250 m2 to be part
of the river precinct.
It said the building’s uses could
include a restaurant or cafe, a
punt or boat launch facility, tourist
and visitor services or associated
retail, and would function
similar to Antigua Boatsheds.
2028 deadline for stadium
or the stadium is allowed to
continue running under a new
resource consent.
An independent hearings
panel decided all the temporary
facilities, including the grandstands,
corporate boxes, changing
rooms, scoreboards and
hospitality facilities would need
to be removed by then.
The $30 million stadium was
built as a temporary replacement
facility for rugby union and
league following the February
2011 earthquake.
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