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Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 3<br />
Former soldier’s tribute brightens cabinet<br />
A COLOURFUL tribute to New<br />
Zealand and Australian soldiers<br />
is catching the eye of people on<br />
Pages Rd, Wainoni.<br />
Former solider Chris Solly has<br />
been busy painting his Anzac<br />
tribute on the Chorus cabinet<br />
near the Christchurch Memorial<br />
RSA social housing.<br />
Solly’s design, which features<br />
a scene from the Battle of The<br />
Somme, was chosen by the city<br />
council’s graffiti team through<br />
the Chorus cabinet art initiative.<br />
The project sees local<br />
artists commissioned to paint<br />
their designs on Chorus<br />
telecommunications cabinets.<br />
Graffiti Projects co-ordinator<br />
Mel Hillier said the city council<br />
had 54 submissions for the<br />
cabinet project this year, the<br />
highest number ever received.<br />
Ten winning designs were<br />
selected.<br />
“Each one has its own unique<br />
story, and placement of painting<br />
has been thought about to<br />
showcase the design. We have<br />
placed each design on a cabinet<br />
location that will best show off<br />
the design’s uniqueness,” she<br />
said.<br />
Hillier said nine of the cabinets<br />
are in areas identified as highly<br />
targeted for tagging and graffiti.<br />
Solly said he was thrilled to<br />
have his submission accepted.<br />
“My design commemorates<br />
New Zealanders and Australians<br />
MURAL: Chris Solly with his design, chosen to be featured on a Chorus cabinet in Wainoni.<br />
who served and died in all wars,<br />
conflict, and peace-keeping<br />
operations and the contributions<br />
and suffering of all those who<br />
LEST WE FORGET:<br />
New Zealand infantry<br />
in the switch line<br />
at the Battle of<br />
Flers-Courcelette,<br />
part of the Battle<br />
of the Somme, in<br />
September 1916.<br />
PHOTO:<br />
WIKICOMMONS<br />
have served.<br />
“As an ex-serviceman, this<br />
Right - New<br />
Zealand WW1<br />
machine gun post<br />
in the Somme,<br />
1918.<br />
PHOTO:<br />
NATIONAL LIBRARY<br />
work has deep meaning for me.”<br />
Solly is a former member of the<br />
2nd/1st Battalion. He has served<br />
on active deployments overseas,<br />
including working with the<br />
United Nations in Bosnia in the<br />
1990s.<br />
He has included The Ode of<br />
Remembrance on the cabinet, in<br />
both english and te reo māori.<br />
The cabinet’s location near the<br />
Christchurch Memorial RSA<br />
social housing was the perfect<br />
location for his design, he said.<br />
Chorus’ cabinet art initiative<br />
began in 2010 with a test pilot<br />
in Auckland to try to reduce<br />
the amount of vandalism to<br />
telecommunications cabinets.<br />
It was extended throughout the<br />
country and an average of 170<br />
murals are now completed each<br />
year.<br />
The programme helps promote<br />
a sense of community belonging,<br />
identity and pride while also<br />
helping to discourage anti-social<br />
behaviour.<br />
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