Chch city with style, future —Bob Lowe

Press, 22 June 1989, Page 7

Chch city with style, future —Bob Lowe

By

JENNY LONG

“Christchurch, you've got style,” says one of the city’s best-known identities, Canon Bob Lowe. Christchurch should remember that it was named after Christchurch, Oxford, and be proud to promote its history and lifestyle as it went towards the year 2000, Canon Lowe told a Canterbury Promotion Council meeting last evening. People yearned for the history they could still remember, and the “new retired,” and well-off widows, would want to visit, he said.

Christchurch had a wonderful climate, great people, and 28 golf courses within 10 miles of the Square, Canon Lowe said.

He called on the Promotion Council to lead the march to promote tourism, “not phoney tourism,” but things in keeping with the province.

Canon Lowe also detailed what he thought three of the city’s prominent citizens would be doing by the year 2000.

“Hamish — well, he’ll still be saying he’s got a great deal to offer. “Margaret Murray — she’ll still be wondering what to do because she’s a woman.

“Vicki Buck will have completed her second term of office, and be wondering whether to follow the grand dame of Auckland, and become our next Governor-Gen-eral.”