Nor'West News: May 19, 2022

Thursday May 19 2022 3
Committee upset by missing plaques
that signify friendship between cities
GONE: David Bolam-Smith at the site of a removed plaque. The Canterbury Japanese
Society and Christchurch Kurashiki Sister City committee members saw the plaques were
missing during a monthly working bee in the Kurashiki Garden.
• By Emily Moorhouse
TWO MISSING plaques at
Halswell Quarry have left
keepers of the garden frustrated
and confused.
The Canterbury Japanese
Society and Christchurch
Kurashiki Sister City committee
members noticed two plaques
had been taken from the
Kurashiki Garden when they
were completing their monthly
working bee.
The first plaque, which was
secured to a rock, represents the
40th anniversary of the relationship
between the city and Japan,
as the city’s mayor at the time
was signed in the same time as
the Kurashiki mayor.
The second plaque was donated
to the gardens and installed
onto a shade house used for
people working in the gardens to
rest in.
Christchurch Kurashiki Sister
City committee member David
Bolam-Smith said it was devastating
to see the plaques were
missing, as they represented the
friendship between the committee
and Japan.
“It must have been quite an
effort, it was secured to a rock,”
Bolam-Smith said. “I have no
idea how they did it.”
He said it was frustrating, as
committee members spend a lot
of volunteer hours making the
gardens look nice.
Bolam-Smith, who looks after
the garden along with a ranger,
said the 40th anniversary plaque
cost just under $2000 to make
and install.
He said he has contacted the
city council about reporting the
missing plaques to police and
hopes someone will return them.
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