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Speaker 1: Now, as I told you at the start of the show,

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Speaker 1: a group of Hagley College students want to rename Rolliston

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Speaker 1: ad in christ Church. They want to do this because

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Speaker 1: the man that the road is named for, William Roliston,

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Speaker 1: was a central figure leading to the devastating invasion of

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Speaker 1: Parejaka in Tarannuki in eighteen eighty one. Tyler Harrison Hunt

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Speaker 1: is a christ Church councilor for the Rickerton Wardhay Tyler.

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Speaker 2: Here, how are you?

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Speaker 1: And well? Thank you? Do you agree with them you

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Speaker 1: need a name change?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't have a position one that actually the

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Speaker 2: thing that I was actually most proud of was seeing

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Speaker 2: and come to the table, be brave and talk in

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Speaker 2: front of seventeen elected members about something they are passionate about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think do you think it's I can't

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Speaker 1: see it floating with Christ Church Council. What do you think.

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Speaker 2: I think it's worth the conversation? That's the first step,

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Speaker 2: you know. Anything outside of that, we can't do anything

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Speaker 2: drafted obviously, and christ has got its own identity and

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Speaker 2: it's currently ever changing. So it's something that I really

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Speaker 2: appreciated them coming to the table with. Yeah, particularly was

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Speaker 2: something they were so passionate about around the statues more

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Speaker 2: than the road names. Any statues there we got, We've

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Speaker 2: got quite a few actually, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook's

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Speaker 2: around there, Fitzgerald, Willie Rolliston's and Rolison Air. So there's

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Speaker 2: quite a few hanging around and that adds to the

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Speaker 2: colonial heritage of christ Church, and after the earthquakes we

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Speaker 2: actually did lose a lot of that. So I'd expect

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Speaker 2: that the conversations would be a contentious one, but also

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Speaker 2: something that's actually really healthy to talk about.

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Speaker 3: The fact that they have have learned the history, I

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Speaker 3: think is probably actually proof of why we need to

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Speaker 3: leave the name there, because if it wasn't that the

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Speaker 3: name was there, eyed out very much, that they would

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Speaker 3: would have connected the dots and realized, how you know

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Speaker 3: it kind of it makes you think about what the

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Speaker 3: sky has done and learn about what the sky has done.

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Speaker 1: What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too, And I played Devil's advocate

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Speaker 2: and asking that exact question, and their answer back to

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Speaker 2: me was that while we acknowledged that the street names

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Speaker 2: and statues were named after these people, they weren't wanting

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Speaker 2: them to be seen as being celebrated for the things

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Speaker 2: that they did. Particularly they were talking about Roliston and Wakefield,

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Speaker 2: of which a lot of Wellington and Nelson is named

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Speaker 2: after with the New Zealand Company. And for myself, I

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Speaker 2: descend from three tribes and Taranaki and Tartanaki Tiatiawa is

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Speaker 2: one of them. My family was from White Tutter, so

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Speaker 2: that's a really close piece for me. And being the

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Speaker 2: only Maori and council obviously I had to question them

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Speaker 2: and see where they are.

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Speaker 1: Tyler, listen, it's good to talk to you. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Tyler Harrison Hunt, counsel for the ricketson Ward

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Speaker 1: in christ Church. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive,

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