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dc.title: Empowered Christchurch Letter to Niels Holm
dc.description: A copy of a letter from Hugo Kristinsson which was sent to Niels Holm, Official Secretary to the Governor General, on 12 August 2014. The letter was sent on behalf of Empowered Christchurch. It thanks Holm for his response to the letter Empowered Christchurch sent to the Governor General and expresses their disappointment that they have not recieved a response from the Governor General. Kristinsson also expresses his disappointment that the Governor General has not forwarded a letter sent by the Queen 'to the relevant minister'.
Creator(s): Hugo Kristinsson
Date: 12:00pm 12th August 2014
Tags: Empowered Christchurch, Queen Elizabeth, Niels Holm, letter, Governor General, Hugo Kristinsson, Government and Politics

dc.title: Fairfax Video, November 2011 (1)
dc.description: A video about field trials conducted by the Department of Building and Housing at Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch. Fifty kilograms of explosives are being used to simulate a magnitude-4 earthquake at a distance of 10 kilometres. The aim of the trials is to test soil-strengthening techniques that could be used to repair damaged land in Christchurch.
Creator(s): Daniel Williams, Daniel Tobin
Date: 5:00am 2nd November 2011
Tags: Department of Building and Housing, QEII, Queen Elizabeth II Park, explosive, explosion, soil strengthening, land, spoil, Media, Communications and Journalism

dc.title: Fairfax Video, February 2011 (4)
dc.description: Aerial footage of Christchurch recorded the day after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The footage shows damage to the Smith City car park, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, the CTV Building, the PGC Building, the Durham Street Methodist Church, the Lyttelton Timeball Station, the roads alongside the Avon River, and the ChristChurch Cathedral. It also shows New Zealand Army road blocks outside the hospital, crushed buses on Colombo Street, a Royal New Zealand Navy vessel in Lyttelton Harbour, rock fall on the Summit Road, collapsed cliffs in Sumner and Redcliffs, tents set up in a park, flooding in New Brighton, and liquefaction in QEII Park.
Creator(s): Daniel Tobin
Date: 2:23am 23rd February 2011
Tags: aerial, Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, ChristChurch Cathedral, Lyttelton, Lyttelton Timeball, cordon, hospital, Summit Road, flooding, New Brighton, QEII, liquefaction, Durham Street Methodist Church, CTV, PGC, bus, Queen Elizabeth II Park, Media, Communications and Journalism

dc.title: Empowered Christchurch Letter to Queen Elizabeth II
dc.description: A copy of a document from Empowered Christchurch which was sent to Queen Elizabeth. The document consists of a letter from Empowered Christchurch to Douglas Martin, Crown Manager from the Christchurch City Council, and Official Information Act requests sent to Building and Construction Minister Maurice Williamson and Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee. It also includes an appeal to the Queen on behalf of Christchurch residents with badly-damaged houses. Please note that a letter from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, which was originally included in the document, has been removed due to copyright issues.
Creator(s): Hugo Kristinsson
Date: 12:13pm 18th September 2014
Tags: Empowered Christchurch, Hugo Kristinson, Christchurch City Council, Official Information Act, Maurice Williamson, CERA, Gerry Brownlee, Queen Elizabeth, letter, MBIE, Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, OIA, Government and Politics

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