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