Tag: Media Release

Historic Places Canterbury Media Release: Support Our M.P.s Supporting Our Heritage Public Rally- 12.30pm 24th May

Historic-Places-Mid-Canterbury-Purple-logo

Christchurch MPs are to receive NZ’s heaviest Heritage Open Letter (a 15kg stone tablet) addressed to Prime Minister John Key and Ministers, along with a heritage petition signed by 5000.

Media release from:
Historic Places Canterbury, IConIC, Christchurch Civic Trust, 21 May 2013 (more…)

Scott 100 Dinner- Guest Speakers Include James Blake: Saturday 9th Feb. 2013

webmain-logoA gala dinner with a contemporary menu from renowned chef and restaurateur Fleur Sullivan.

The Dinner will be in Fleur's Loan & Merc Restaurant in Oamaru's stunning historic precinct.
http://www.oamaruscott100.org.nz/Scott 100 Dinner

Guest speakers will entertain throughout the evening including James Blake, son of the late Sir Peter Blake and Pippa Lady Blake.

Professor Sir David Skegg, President of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and Mrs Philippa Foster Back, Chair of the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust, will also be present and contributing to the occasion. Other international guests include Zoe Young the granddaughter of Kathleen Scott and Lord Kennet. (more…)

Historic Places Canterbury Is Appalled at the Mindless Act of Visual Pollution Inflicted on the Historic Shands Emporium Building: Media Release

historic_places_cant_purple_logo

"Historic Places Canterbury is appalled at the mindless act of visual pollution by Wilson Parking
in attaching one of its signs directly to the 1860 Historic Shands  Emporium Building..."

Media Release: 21 December 2012. (more…)