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A photograph capturing two rainbows falling into Christchurch’s highest peaks has won a competition to highlight the land Kiwis have just raised enough money to buy.
Amber Allott08:49, May 26 2021
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The Press has helped raise the funds to buy two of Christchurch’s highest peaks for a public conservation park. (First published May 26, 2021)
Stuff has teamed up with a charitable trust to help buy a 500-hectare block of gorse-speckled hillside and help it return to its former, forested glory. After a surprise offer from a local farmer, the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust launched its Te Ahu Pātiki project to bring a swathe of Lyttelton-facing land – between Mt Herbert and Mt Bradley – into public ownership. The aim is to make sure people have access to a sprawling network of popular walking tracks in years to come, and turn the whole block into a giant conservation park.
Jim Tully has been recognised in the New Year Honours.
Fifty years and two retirements later, Jim Tully’s years as a journalist and an educator are being honoured with a New Zealand Order of Merit. His career began at the Auckland Star in 1969, a graduate of the inaugural year of Canterbury University’s journalism programme, which he would later head for 25 years, from 1987. He and wife Liz moved to Wellington after his retirement in 2012, but a call from Massey University changed his path again, and a role as a guest lecturer swiftly morphed into an associate professor role at the heart of the journalism programme.