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Council announces Flower Show purchase price
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 4:43 pm | Christchurch City Council
Today’s (24 September) Christchurch City Council meeting agreed to make public its purchase price of the Ellerslie International Flower Show. More >>
Vive L’Akaroa
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 3:23 pm | Christchurch City Council
Where better to catch a game of French Cricket, see Can Can dancers and experience authentic French cooking than Akaroa’s annual French Fest. The two-day extravaganza will once again showcase Akaroa's rich heritage and French connections, with festivities ... More >>
Public consultation on plan for Belfast
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 1:22 pm | Christchurch City Council
A draft area plan to manage growth and development in and around Belfast was today approved by the Christchurch City Council for public consultation. Under greater Christchurch’s 35-year plan, the greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy, ... More >>
Ellerslie generates more than $19.7m for Chch
Wednesday, 23 September 2009, 3:44 pm | Christchurch City Council
The Ellerslie International Flower Show generated more than $19.7 million in direct expenditure for Christchurch’s economy this year. Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker says this is a significant amount and it was an important cash injection in to the ... More >>
Pushing Sound To The Limit
Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 2:55 pm | Christchurch City Council
Greek sound artist ILIOS will use extreme frequencies to investigate the limits of audibility in a performance at Christchurch Art Gallery next month. More >>
People’s Choice Award winners to wow Ellerslie
Monday, 21 September 2009, 5:53 pm | Christchurch City Council
The People’s Choice Award winners at this year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show, Texture Plants and Outerspace Landscapes, will be back in 2010 with an exhibition garden guaranteed again wow the crowds. More >>
People’s Choice winners to wow Ellerslie in 2010
Monday, 21 September 2009, 5:22 pm | Christchurch City Council
The People’s Choice Award winners at this year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show, Texture Plants and Outerspace Landscapes, will be back in 2010 with an exhibition garden guaranteed again wow the crowds. More >>
Name Sought for City Mall Junction
Monday, 21 September 2009, 9:59 am | Christchurch City Council
Christchurch people are being asked to help come up with a name for the area around the corner of Cashel and High Streets often referred to as “Hack Circle.” Last year the Council was asked to consider formally naming the area in honour of Frank ... More >>
Free digital downloads from library without walls
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 10:29 am | Christchurch City Council
Books on your iPod or MP3 player any time of day or night – that’s the promise to library customers as Christchurch City Libraries launches Overdrive - a new digital media service from October 5. Manager Libraries and Information Carolyn Robertson ... More >>
New Zealand Book Month
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 2:55 pm | Christchurch City Council
Christchurch City Libraries will play host to a variety of events next month to celebrate New Zealand Book Month. More >>
Godwits have landed
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 3:57 pm | Christchurch City Council
Re About 40 Bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica) arrived on the Avon-Heathcote Estuary yesterday afternoon, to be followed today and over the next few weeks by up to 2000 more. These join a flock of about 190 juvenile birds that had stayed on the estuary ... More >>
Godwits due back soon in Christchurch
Monday, 14 September 2009, 9:19 am | Christchurch City Council
The Bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), farewelled by Christchurch in March, is due to arrive back to the Avon-Heathcote Estuary within the next two weeks. The Godwits usually return to Christchurch in the third or fourth week of September. They head ... More >>
Council to look at buying Wainoni houses
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 9:07 am | Christchurch City Council
Council to look at buying Wainoni houses The Christchurch City Council is to consider buying the two houses at the centre of last week’s discovery of two bodies in Wainoni. More >>
Christchurch to celebrate World Parks Day
Monday, 7 September 2009, 10:25 am | Christchurch City Council
Christchurch will join cities all over the world next week to celebrate green spaces as part of World Parks Day. To mark the occasion, the City Council has teamed up with Trees for Canterbury to hold a special tree planting day at Travis Wetland Reserve ... More >>
Opening of Christchurch Pet Memorial cancelled
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 4:49 pm | Christchurch City Council
MEDIA STATEMENT The Christchurch City Council has cancelled this Sunday’s (6 September) official opening of the Pet Memorial Park at The Groynes Dog Park as details of the proposal are still being finalised and there were no registrations of interest. Staff ... More >>
Competition builds for this month’s Masters Games
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 4:47 pm | Christchurch City Council
Former Rugby League Captain Tony Coll, who played 30 tests for the Kiwis in the early 1970s, will be tackling the mountain biking course and the cycle road race. Coll, who took up biking seven years ago, sees his first South Island Masters Games as ... More >>
Christchurch Resisdents recieve discounts
Monday, 31 August 2009, 3:39 pm | Christchurch City Council
Christchurch residents are again being offered specially priced tickets to attend the Ellerslie International Flower Show. These tickets go on sale tomorrow (1 September). More >>
Breathing life into central south Christchurch
Monday, 31 August 2009, 3:18 pm | Christchurch City Council
The vision for breathing life into Christchurch’s Central City South will be the focus of an exhibition opening at Our City O-Tautahi on Tuesday 1 September. Revitalising, revaluing, refreshing and growing the city’s heart demonstrates a bold belief in ... More >>
Sea conditions hamper Ocean Outfall completion
Monday, 31 August 2009, 11:29 am | Christchurch City Council
Poor sea conditions have hampered the final section of the Ocean Outfall pipeline construction and have delayed the completion of the project. The work has been running to schedule, but unforeseen poor weather in the marine section of the pipeline construction ... More >>
Canterbury transport funding welcomed
Friday, 28 August 2009, 3:05 pm | Christchurch City Council
A $636 million investment in land transport projects for the Canterbury region is a very strong signal of the Government's support for the region, Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker says. More >>
