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Christchurch has listings in the former two categories. As of July 2011, there were 315 historic places and seven historic areas listed. In August 2011, Heritage New Zealand started the process of removing listings of buildings demolished after the earthquakes, starting with the Manchester Courts and the NZ Trust and Loan Building entries. [3]
New Zealand Gardener (since 1944) 1970s. Art New Zealand (since 1977) Art News Aotearoa, originally Art News New Zealand (since 1979) 1980s. Cuisine (since 1986) Fashion Quarterly (1980 to 2020, since 2020) Metro (since 1981) New Zealand Geographic (since 1989) North & South (since 1986) Woman's Day (since 1989) 1990s. The Australian Women's ...
The building was used as Civil Defence headquarters for Christchurch following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and again after the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The gallery was designed to deal with seismic events. The gallery's foundation, a concrete raft slab that sits on the surface of the ground, evenly distributes earthquake forces.
Justice Peter Mahon QC, (1923–1986), the New Zealand High Court judge who led the Commission of Inquiry into the 1979 crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 into Mount Erebus. Margaret Mahy (1936–2012), writer for children and young adults; George Manning (1887–1976), politician and mayor of Christchurch
The Star is a newspaper published in Christchurch, New Zealand.It was published daily from 1868 to 1991. It became the Christchurch Star-Sun in June 1935 after merging with a rival newspaper, The Sun, and at the time it ceased daily publication in 1991 it was known as The Christchurch Star. [2]
The first public radio service in Christchurch — 3YA — was established in 1926; [118] [119] New Zealand's first live sports radio broadcast was made from Christchurch later that year. [ 120 ] [ 121 ] [ 119 ] The first set of traffic lights was installed in Christchurch in 1930 at the intersection of Cashel and Colombo Streets . [ 122 ]
Pages in category "People from Christchurch" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 217 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Our City, more formally Our City O-Tautahi, also known as the Old Municipal Chambers, [1] is a Queen Anne style building on the corner of Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace in the Christchurch Central City. It is a Category I heritage building registered with Heritage New Zealand. [2]