4 April 2013

Writers' Busts outside the Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand

'MARGARET MAHY
 
CHRISTCHURCH CHILDREN'S
LIBRARIAN, WORLD-FAMOUS
WRITER OF MAGICAL STORIES
AND VERSE FOR CHILDREN
AND YOUNG ADULTS,
GIVER OF THE GIFT OF IMAGINATION'
 
'TIPENE O'REGAN
 
RAKATIRA, KAUMATUA, WRITER,
ORATOR AND TEACHER,
PRINCIPAL NEGOCIATOR OF
THE NGAI TUHU SETTLEMENT
WHICH BROUGHT MANY POSITIVE
RESULTS FOR ALL OF CANTERBURY'
 
'ELSIE LOCKE
 
POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND LOCAL
COMMUNITY ACTIVIST, WELL-LOVED
HISTORIAN AND WRITER, DETERMINED
AND DOUGHTY FIGHTER FOR THE
RIGHTS OF THE UNDER-DOG,
ACTIVE TO THE END'
 
'DONALD BEAVEN
 
DOCTOR, RESEARCH SPECIALIST
AND TEACHER, LOVED AND
RESPECTED AS THE FOUNDER OF
DIABETES RESEARCH AND
CARE IN NEW ZEALAND, TIRELESS
PROMOTER OF THE HEALTHY LIFE'

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