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'