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Philip Burdon, pictured here in 2018, had already donated $1m to restoration of Christ Church Cathedral and helped campaign to save the building from demolition.
Christchurch businessman and former politician Philip Burdon has donated another $4 million to the restoration of the Christ Church Cathedral on top of his original $1m gift made soon after the 2011 earthquakes.
It comes ahead of a fundraising campaign to be launched in March to raise up to $26m by October to keep the restoration project on track.
Burdon, who successfully campaigned to save the cathedral from demolition with the late Jim Anderton, said he was confident the multimillion-dollar funding shortfall for the $154.3m restoration project could be raised.