The Star: April 27, 2017

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Thursday April 27 2017
URGENT:
Paul
O’Connor
is leading
a project
to have the
Citizens’ War
Memorial
moved away
from the
Catherdral
to Cranmer
Square (right).
PHOTO:
GEOFF
SLOAN
•From page 11
Valerie McCallum – What
a pathetic excuse. Everyone
who lives in Christchurch
knows there is a chronic shortage
of parking around hospitals.
The odd thing about this
is that there is never a shortage
at most (not all) of the malls
where taxpayers and visitors go
to spend money and time.
Linda
Hunt – Hard
when you
take someone
who is really
sick into the
accident and
emergency
department
and you are
a holder of
a disability
parking permit
and you
have to drop
them off and
leave them
alone to try
finding a car
park in the
middle of the
night. Every
disability car
park has a
car in it with no card. Took me
nearly one hour to get back to
accident and emergency after
finding a park in the middle of
nowhere. I was so scared. Then
I had to do it all again when I
left on my own to walk back
to the car. Nurses have been
attacked. Does someone have
to die before they engage their
tiny brains?
Tina Bailey – Where was
the site and is it still available?
Surely the Ministry of Health
can admit it made an error
and continue with the plan.
Parking around the hospital for
patients, visitors and staff is at
crisis point and is only getting
worse. Another example of
Christchurch getting screwed
over by the Government.
The Christchurch RSA
said that if money can be
found to put a “piece of
art in the river to collect
rubbish,” why can’t it
be found to shift the
deteriorating Citizens’ War
Memorial away from the
crumbling Christ Church
Cathedral?
Helen Ollis – I have lived
in Canterbury all my life. My
grandad fought for our country
in World War 1. My thoughts
are with soldiers present and
past, how would they feel seeing
the memorial lingering
amongst the derelict eyesore?
Stephen Graham – Leave
it where it is. It’s damaged and
shifting it would be an expensive
engineering nightmare.
It will be repaired
and in
its full glory
again. Just
need patience.
Carolyn
Fifield – I
don’t believe
the city council
can do
anything as it
is on church
land. My
understanding
is that the
church used
the insurance
money
elsewhere as
it wanted to
replace the
Cathedral
with a much
cheaper glass option, and now
do not have the funds, in spite
of funding and contributions
from central and local government,
plus millions of dollars
raised overseas.
Joy Averis – The city
council needs to get its priorities
right. Totally agree with
the RSA, the magnificent (well
it was magnificent) memorial
needs to be removed from the
sight and Cranmer Square is a
good place to have it sited. May
have to get a petition set up or
even crowd funding. Come on
city council, respect those men
who died to keep us free.
Richard Long – The whole
situation just shows how poorly
the rebuild has been handled
and its effects on residents.
Such a shame to see our city
fall into ruins with such mismanagement
and such narrowminded
thinking. I feel we have
missed the opportunity to rise
up as a world class city. The city
council, Cera, Government,
Anglican Church and all of
us should be ashamed that we
have allowed this to happen.
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