“The parade broke all records. Christchurch City Council organisers estimated it attracted a crowd of more than 100,000, outstripping the 1995 America’s Cup crowd of 60,000. “The large silver cup rode on the leading vehicle, under the watchful eye of minder Steve Lancaster. With him was captain Todd Blackadder, seeming not to notice placards exhorting him to stand for mayor.” Crean wrote that it took the parade more than an hour to inch its way through the central city, as players and team management shook hands with as many supporters as possible. “Stan Goston, 67, had travelled by rail and ferry from Palmerston North to take his four-year-old nephew, Tim Maddock, to the parade. He left 30 years ago but still supports Canterbury.
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Families gather for the 10th anniversary of the Pike River mine disaster at the Atarau memorial near Greymouth. (Video first published November 19, 2020)
THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of
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The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. “A father mourning his son bore a weathered log on his shoulder up the long, rocky track at Punakaiki’s place of death yesterday,” reporter Mike Crean wrote in
The Press on May 1, 1995. “He sobbed deeply as he trod, and his eyes streamed. The log was his Cross; Cave Creek his Calvary.
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