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Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. There's life in the christ Church Cathedral rebuild.

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Speaker 1: After all, got a new plan shortfall that brought the

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Speaker 1: project to a standstill that seems to have been reduced

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Speaker 1: to about forty million. They'll now proceed in stages and

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Speaker 1: fingers Cross were good to go in about five years

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Speaker 1: time now. Mark Stewart's the director of the christ Church

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Speaker 1: Cathedral Reinstatement Organization. Marks with us Mark morning, Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: This is desperately needed, isn't it. But I mean for

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Speaker 1: those of us who from christ Church, but look it

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Speaker 1: outside in if there's one thing that needs sorting, this

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Speaker 1: is it.

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Speaker 2: This is it, Mike. I mean, this is the catstone

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Speaker 2: to the end of the earthquake era. You know, We've

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Speaker 2: got Cathedral Square that sits there sort of anguishing, and

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Speaker 2: yet everything around it has revitalized, and we're on file.

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Speaker 2: We're about to open the stadium and several months away,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to bring all this international attention to

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Speaker 2: christ Church and the renaissance after the earthquake. And yet

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Speaker 2: we had this big light on our landscape right in

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Speaker 2: the center of the city.

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Speaker 1: Are the numbers solid? That gap is solid? It's forty

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Speaker 1: million ish and you've got it covered.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe that's pretty much. We've we've been working

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Speaker 2: on the site for several years now. We've only been

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Speaker 2: insider for you know, eighteen months or so, and that's

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Speaker 2: when we really could do all the assessments as to

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Speaker 2: how to fix it, the state of it's you know,

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Speaker 2: repair and you know what state it was actually in,

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Speaker 2: which was really badly damaged as you can imagine. So

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Speaker 2: we've been we've had we've been pouring over these numbers

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Speaker 2: for several years. You know, the thirty percent of the

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Speaker 2: cost of the cathedral is actually in masonry, so this

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Speaker 2: is Stonemasons putting things back if you like. So you know,

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Speaker 2: this is a labor intensive job pretty much. But you know,

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Speaker 2: we've we've done all the estimates. We sort of know

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Speaker 2: how to fix it. We've got the we've got all

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Speaker 2: the design and underway, and we've had to reconsider that

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Speaker 2: now in a staged approach too, because some of the

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Speaker 2: foundations need to be laid for the future. But nonetheless,

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Speaker 2: we know we're building a brand new tower from scratch

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Speaker 2: out of the ground and one hundred percent of building

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Speaker 2: code for that particular part of the building, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we've we've got a robust plan, fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Well, I wish you were with it and I'll be

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Speaker 1: there with bells on and twenty thirty Mark Stewart, who's

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Speaker 1: the director of the Christchurch Cathedral Reinstatement Group.

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