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Penny Gaylor: New inner-city premises welcomed 13 Dec, 2020 07:57 PM 2 minutes to read By: Penny Gaylor Last week was an auspicious final council meeting for the year as it was our first council meeting in our new chambers at 100 Cuba St. Four years ago when I was first elected to Greater Wellington Regional Council, we had our first (and my only) council meeting in the chambers at the GWRC offices in Shed 39 at the Wellington Port. Soon after was the Kaikoura earthquake which resulted in a lot of damage to Shed 39. The chamber was immediately commandeered for staff desk space, and our council meetings happened in other chambers around the region for some months, and then in the Westpac stadium, and for the last couple of years at the temporary offices on Walter St. ....
There, standing with his back to the sea is a sandstone carving of Ngāti Toa tipuna and orator Te Rangihaeata. The work is by Herman Salzman and marks the start of a community funded writers’ walk along the harbour s edge. It’s bittersweet this walk, knowing what an abundant, healthy harbour it used to be. I listened to kaumātua back at the marae talking about once walking down and collecting kaimoana. I wondered what we could have gone back to tell our ancestors, to avoid this current reality. Arihia Latham A window-shaped Michael King commemorative sculpture, by Michael Bennington, offers another chance to look out over the harbour and dream the reality on the other side, from before, or ahead. ....