Floral start to election campaign
Labour candidates for the Christchurch City Council West Ward celebrated spring and opened their election campaign yesterday by giving away daffodils. Messrs Bruce Dyer and Trevor Warr and Mrs Hinemoa Conner distributed the flowers from a trailer pulled by a tractor as it travelled from Northlands .to Cathedral Square. The journey along Papanui Road was also designed to highlight what the candidates saw as “Christchurch’s own sunset strip, with endless neon signs lighting up an extending row of motels.” A statement issued by the candidates ' said the motels were bringing more traffic to an area of dense traffic. Present councillors did not care, it said. Once in Cathedral Square, the three candidates and the Labour mayoral candidate, Mr Alex Clark, continued to hand out flowers. The Wizard joined the spring celebration by casting a spring spell and morris dancers performed several spring fertility dances.
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Press, 2 September 1986, Page 9
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