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Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Inside<br />
FROM<br />
THE<br />
EDITOR’S<br />
DESK<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
News....................................3-23<br />
IT’S A no-brainer to use Hagley<br />
Park for temporary car parking<br />
to alleviate the massive issues at<br />
Christchurch Hospital.<br />
Why the powers that be<br />
haven’t put that into action is<br />
surprising.<br />
On page 1 today, we canvass<br />
those for and against the idea,<br />
and surprisingly Hands Off<br />
Hagley – the group that tried<br />
to stop the cricket stadium –<br />
supports the idea.<br />
Finding a car park if<br />
you’re visiting the hospital is<br />
diabolical, and it is going to get<br />
worse as the rebuild picks up<br />
more pace.<br />
So it seems totally logical<br />
to tarseal a reasonable area<br />
of Hagley Park’s Hospital<br />
Corner, put in, say, 120min<br />
parks for people visiting the<br />
hospital and parking for<br />
hospital staff.<br />
When the parking buildings<br />
are finished in the area, the<br />
tarseal can be ripped up and<br />
the park replanted with grass<br />
and restored to its former<br />
glory.<br />
Pretty simple in my view.<br />
– Barry Clarke<br />
<strong>The</strong> Christchurch <strong>Star</strong> Company Ltd.<br />
359 Lincoln Rd | Addington | Christchurch 8024<br />
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THIS WEEK IN CANTERBURY’S PAST<br />
This week in history saw widespread jubilation<br />
throughout the city on <strong>May</strong> 8, 1945, to celebrate<br />
victory in Europe. On the same day in 1987, Sir Neil<br />
Isaac, founder of Peacock Springs Conservation<br />
Park, dies. On <strong>May</strong> 9, 1915, Christchurch tennis<br />
star and four time Wimbledon champion Captain<br />
A. F. Wilding was killed in action in Belgium. On<br />
<strong>May</strong> 10, 1975, Vicki Buck, 19, became the city’s<br />
(and New Zealand’s) youngest ever city councillor.<br />
On <strong>May</strong> 13-15, 1920, the Prince of Wales, (later<br />
King Edward VIII, visited the city. On <strong>May</strong> 14-15,<br />
1886, floods inundated the city centre. On <strong>May</strong><br />
14, 1868, the Lyttelton Times first published a daily<br />
evening newspaper, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong>.<br />
SPORT 40<br />
Viewpoint........................ 21<br />
Food...........................................27<br />
Gardening...................... 30<br />
Travel.........................................33<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre/Arts.................35<br />
Puzzles....................................36<br />
Entertainment.......52,55<br />
Airport deal to lift<br />
Chinese visitor numbers<br />
NEWS<br />
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HAT IN HOT DEMAND<br />
A giant floral hat created by a<br />
Christchurch designer is set to<br />
be worn at a Buckingham Palace<br />
garden party this month. <strong>The</strong><br />
White Rose of York hat was one of<br />
15 floral creations by Jenny Gillies<br />
being exhibited in the United<br />
Kingdom, where it was seen by<br />
the wife of the chairman of North<br />
of England Horticultural Society<br />
Council, who “fell in love with it”<br />
and asked permission to wear it at the palace garden party.<br />
Other creations by Ms Gillies are currently on display at the<br />
Botanic Gardens.
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