Weta reformed and played small 200-300 person venues in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch during November 2008.

In February 2008, Salmonella Dub and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra collaborated for the Feel The Seasons Change tour of New Zealand with shows performed in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Nelson.

The 2008 US State Department report on human rights states that prosecutors in Christchurch applied for the first time the law banning sexual slavery, adopted in 2006 in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The location of the convention changes each year: Dublin, Ireland ( 2012 ), Washington, D. C., USA ( 2011 ), Amsterdam, The Netherlands ( 2010 ), Christchurch, New Zealand ( 2009 ), London, UK ( 2008 ), Charleston, SC, USA ( 2007 ), Toronto, Canada ( 2006 ), Fort Worth, TX, USA ( 2005 ), St. Louis, MO, USA ( 2004 ).

In 2008, she was ordained as Bishop of Christchurch, becoming the first woman to hold that position.

Judge at the 2008 Armageddon Convention in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Until the end of 2008, Christchurch opted out of the nationwide breakfast show, presenting their own local breakfast with John Dunne and Ken Ellis, which topped the ratings regularly.

* At the end of 2008 Wellington dropped its local daytime and Saturday brunch show and now takes the network versions of these shows, and exactly the same changes affected ZM Christchurch during the middle of 2009.

* Landcare Research, in conjunction with colleagues in other institutes and agencies, held BioBlitzes in Auckland in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008 ; and in Christchurch in 2005.

* Gehl has been influential in Australia and New Zealand as well, where he prepared Public Life studies for the city centres of Melbourne ( 1994 and 2004 ), Perth ( 1995 and 2009 ), Adelaide ( 2002 ) Sydney ( 2007 ), Auckland ( 2008 ) and Christchurch.

From October 2005 to December 2008 he was Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Media — publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review in Australia ; and The Dominion Post and The Christchurch Press in New Zealand.

In the 2008 elections he contested the Christchurch East electorate and was number 4 on the Alliance Party list.

In April 2008, the Sunday Star Times reported that Gavin Clark of the Auckland private investigation company, Thompson and Clark Investigations ( TCIL ), had offered a Christchurch man, Rob Gilchrist, $ 500 a week to inform on the Save Happy Valley Campaign, for the benefit of the state-owned coal company Solid Energy.

In June 2008, WWE's SmackDown and ECW brands returned to New Zealand ( Auckland and Christchurch ).

The Bats ' seventh full-length album, The Guilty Office, was recorded in Heathcote Valley, Christchurch, and was released on 1 December 2008 through Arch Hill., with the first single, ' Castle Lights '.

* On 8 February 2008, the pilots of Eagle Airways Flight 2279 from Blenheim to Christchurch were attacked and stabbed by a female passenger who claimed to have two bombs on board.

In October 2006 the decision was made to welcome two new teams into the WNBL for the 2007 / 2008 season in Bendigo Spirit and Christchurch Sirens.

They announced their engagement in August 2008 and the couple wed in Christchurch, Dorset on 14 June 2009.

The New Zealand Army and many other volunteer organisations based in Christchurch ( especially the Student Army and the Farmy Army ) helped residents remove silt from their sections because of the sheer volume, with many streets having large mounds piled up on the side of the road.

Major pageants are also held in the New Zealand cities of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

Aaron Joseph Douglas Mauger ( last name pronounced " Major "; born 29 November 1980 in Christchurch, New Zealand ) is a former rugby union player who played at centre for Leicester Tigers.

* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand

* Christchurch the Music, 2005 compilation album from New Zealand

Butler developed the three chapters of Erewhon that make up " The Book of the Machines " from a number of articles that he had contributed to The Press, which had just begun publication in Christchurch, New Zealand, beginning with " Darwin among the Machines " ( 1863 ).

* " Darwin Among the Machines " — ( To the Editor of The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, 13 June 1863 ) from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

With the help of the Mayor, Vicki Buck, the city of Christchurch hosted a Wizard's Conclave in 1995 when visiting colleagues gathered to help build a wizard's nest on top of the university library tower, to witness the New Zealand Wizard hatching from a giant egg in the city art gallery, sky diving whilst chanting a spell for a major rugby match and performing various rituals round the city.

* History page from Christchurch Library website

The University has a main campus of 76 hectares at Ilam, a suburb of Christchurch: about 5 km from the centre of the city.

An Anglo-Saxon charter attributes the illness to divine judgment. Harold had reportedly claimed Sandwich for himself, depriving it from the monks of Christchurch.

The Anglo-Saxons held the present counties of Kent, Sussex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and around the Humber ; it is clear that the native British controlled everything west of a line drawn from the mouth of the Wiltshire Avon at Christchurch north to the river Trent, then along the Trent to where it joined the Humber, then north along the river Derwent and east to the North Sea, and also controlled a salient to the north and west of London, and south of Verulamium, that stretched west to join their main territory.

The area is commonly divided into North Canterbury ( north of the Rakaia River ), Mid Canterbury ( from the Rakaia River to the Rangitata River ), South Canterbury ( south of the Rangitata River ) and Christchurch ( Christchurch City ).

The Air New Zealand CEO increased the domestic airline traffic from Christchurch to Wellington and Auckland.

* A. Smith, Songs and Stories of Taranaki from the Writings of Te Kahui Kararehe ( MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies: Christchurch ), 1993.

* A. Smith, Songs and Stories of Taranaki from the Writings of Te Kahui Kararehe ( MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies: Christchurch ), 1993.

* C. Tremewan, Traditional Stories from Southern New Zealand: He Kōrero nō Te Wai Pounamu ( Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies: Christchurch ), 2002.

* C. Tremewan, Traditional Stories from Southern New Zealand: He Kōrero nō Te Wai Pounamu ( Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies: Christchurch ), 2002.

* C. Tremewan, Traditional Stories from Southern New Zealand: He Kōrero nō Te Wai Pounamu ( Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies: Christchurch ), 2002.

The Avon Valley Path parallels the river from Salisbury to Christchurch.

The " Act for making the River Avon navigable from Christchurch to the city of New Sarum " was enacted in 1664 under Charles II.

A quote from ' Wiki Christchurch NZ ': " The river that flows through the centre of the city ( its banks now largely forming an urban park ) was named Avon at the request of the pioneering Deans brothers to commemorate the Scottish Avon, which rises in the Ayrshire hills near what was their grandfathers ' farm and flows into the Clyde ".

At Christchurch, he reduced the number of canons serving the church from 25 to 13, through not replacing clerks who died.

Air New Zealand Flight 901 was a scheduled sightseeing service from Auckland Airport in New Zealand to Antarctica and return with a scheduled stop at Christchurch Airport to refuel before returning to Auckland.

Across the River Usk from Caerleon, to the south-east and east, St Julian's Park, the village of Christchurch and the upland region around Christchurch Hill as far as the M4 motorway and the A449 road are also within the community.

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