A DOOR-STOP FOR SQUARE
The s3Uuu Uoor-stop whicn has graced a Lyttelton couple’s front doorway for the last 20 years will be given to the City of Christchurch for use in the base of the city’s proposed $35,000 Cathedral Square fountain.
The unpolished greenstone slab will be given by a former Mayor and Mayoress of Lyttelton, Mr and Mrs F. G. Briggs. Mr Briggs is shown holding the football-sized slab.
The slab was the largest ot many pieces of greenstone the couple have owned. Mrs Briggs said yesterday. She had also given away most of the other pieces, but she had kept a smaller piece which would take over
the former task of the city’s chunk. The larger slab was pressed into its mundane role because it was too large and too heavy to put anywhere else, Mrs Briggs said.
The piece was originally part of a block used for the memorial to Sir Maui Pomare, at Hawera. It was given to Mr and Mrs Briggs by a West Coast relative.
According to Maori lore, it was lucky to give away unpolished greenstone, Mrs Briggs said, “but I haven’t won the Golden Kiwi yet.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33527, 7 May 1974, Page 1
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