She didn t think the plants would survive. “The thing that upsets me so much is we have the most amazing group of volunteers doing this because they’re trying to beautify [the area] for the people of Palmerston North. “We have literally spent hours and hours and hours doing this and someone comes along and has nicked them.”
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The Green Corridors group has been doing restoration work and planting in areas of Summerhill. Planting and restoration work in the area has been going on for years, clearing blackberry and then planting native trees, but the stolen trees were planted only a couple of weeks ago.
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Fred Graham says Falling Water represents a Māori leader’s famous quote, “If I dream alone, my dream remains a dream. If we all dream together, our dream becomes reality”. Graham was a pioneer of the 1960s and 1970s art movement that blended Māori and European traditions.
Falling Waters was particularly significant as it was his first water sculpture and his first publicly displayed work in metal. It was commissioned by the original owners of the Alpha Motor Inn and went on display there in 1971. The motel was partially demolished in 2015 and the distinctive copper artwork was put into storage by site owner Wallace Developments.
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At that point we had our lawyers involved.’
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Transgender rights supporters protest against the Speak Up For Women group and the council decision allowing it to hold a public meeting in Nelson. The group argued the council had cancelled the booking unlawfully, with the council appearing to agree with the “characterisation of our organisation which had been made online”. Graham told the group that was not the case, with the dialogue between the parties avoiding a potential injunction, Johnson said. ’I think the Dunedin City Council made a really good decision.’’ Johnson said the group had been the subject of a ’three-year smear campaign ’ by political opponents supporting amendments to the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Act, known as the BDMRR Bill.
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