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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />

Thursday <strong>June</strong> 1 2<strong>01</strong>7 19<br />

Well-known tailor Mark van<br />

Roosmalen’s building was<br />

destroyed in the February 22,<br />

2<strong>01</strong>1, earthquake and moved<br />

his business into a house on<br />

a Fendalton street – but his<br />

neighbours want him gone<br />

Dani Cooper – What is<br />

wrong with these people? He’s in<br />

a business area anyway and he’s<br />

a tailor! I also think the fuss over<br />

the funeral home [Rochdale St]<br />

is disrespectful selfish and rude.<br />

Seriously, I would much rather live<br />

in my rented home in North Beach<br />

than be a stuck up self-absorbed<br />

homeowner from Fendalton. All<br />

they do is complain.<br />

Allan John Fidler – I fully<br />

sympathise with the residents<br />

of Hamilton Ave and Otara St.<br />

Fancy having to live with the<br />

deafening sound of scissors and<br />

the screeching of needle and<br />

thread going through cloth. Back<br />

in the 1960s Fendaltonians were<br />

reputed to be NZ’s worst snobs and<br />

obviously nothing has changed.<br />

Owen Duffy – I don’t know<br />

what is worse, these people trying<br />

to close a business down. Or them<br />

buying a property in Ilam and<br />

trying to say they are in Fendalton.<br />

Snobbery at its worst.<br />

Corey Humm – Typical<br />

Fendalton. Guess they asked him<br />

what school he went to and didn’t<br />

like the answer.<br />

Erina Parks – Far out, it’s a<br />

tailoring business, for goodness<br />

sake! You people have got no<br />

show of making him leave – after<br />

all Manchester St residents can’t<br />

get the city council to act on the<br />

prostitutes leaving their rubbish<br />

in residents’ front gardens. You<br />

neighbours should be ashamed of<br />

yourselves – you’re surrounded by<br />

commercial activity. This smells of<br />

personal vendetta.<br />

Val Proffitt – As I was trying<br />

to say . . . Fendalton people, how<br />

about starting to live in the real<br />

world. Good on you Mark van<br />

Roosmalen, I hope your business<br />

remains very successful.<br />

Stella Wyn – I wonder what<br />

is wrong with Hamilton Ave area.<br />

Two to three years back houses<br />

were hot in auction, but past few<br />

months, they are not popular.<br />

I’m puzzled. Fendalton Village<br />

is always too crowded with cars.<br />

Anyway, it is probably better to<br />

have him than student rental next<br />

door.<br />

Josie White – I operate an<br />

interior design business from home<br />

in St Martins with legal street<br />

signage. Not once has anyone<br />

complained. Give Mark a break<br />

please Fendalton and be thankful<br />

you have an amazing tailor in your<br />

vicinity.<br />

Helen Baker – <strong>The</strong> people of<br />

Fendalton are lucky to have such a<br />

service in the area. It doesn’t set a<br />

precedence at all under the terms of<br />

the quakes effect on business in the<br />

city. It was a unique situation that<br />

enabled this. How precious people<br />

can be.<br />

Cherry Cornelius – I find<br />

it almost as offensive that this<br />

rubbish is reported. Residents of<br />

any area need to we welcoming<br />

stop any kind of abuse at its roots<br />

and it seems in Christchurch.<br />

It may have a deep seating in<br />

Fendalton.<br />

Cherie Trotter – Nearly every<br />

suburb in NZ has a dressmaker/<br />

alterations person working out of<br />

their spare bedroom of their home.<br />

Come on neighbours, get on with<br />

your life.<br />

Janys Rebecca Harrison –<br />

Get over yourselves! Just be<br />

glad that he’s a tailor, instead of<br />

someone dodgy.<br />

Carolyn Fraser – What a<br />

bunch of snobs. Who do they think<br />

they are? <strong>The</strong>y would look down<br />

their noses at any one. Keep up the<br />

good work Mark van Roosemalen.<br />

Francesca De Angelis –<br />

Mark is by far the best – and only<br />

true tailor in Christchurch. <strong>The</strong>se<br />

people have clearly too much time<br />

in their hands to complain for the<br />

sake of complaining. Don’t buy a<br />

house in front of a mall if parking<br />

overflow irritates you.

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