STACY SQUIRES Hornby High School's head of drama Joanne Clark says Shakespeare has been taught in the Christchurch school for the past 20 years. THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of The The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. “Amid suggestions that he be given the water test for sorcery in Cathedral Square, the Wizard of Christchurch (Ian Brackenbury Channell) came closer to a meeting with Christchurch city councillors yesterday,” The Press reported on November 25, 1975. The British-born Wizard had arrived in Christchurch from Australia a year earlier and quickly began drawing crowds when he lectured in Cathedral Square. A long and often absurd battle with authorities started then, and continued for decades.