Logie Jan: Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLogie Jan: Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 01 April 2015. Volume:704;Page:2831. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JAN LOGIE (Green): It is with pleasure that I rise to speak on this the second reading of the Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill a private bill brought to this House by the Hon Nicky Wagner. I would like to commend the Associate Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery on the smooth progress of this bill so far through the House and also for the demonstration that is within this bill of a connection to community and a valuing of heritage and the importance that that plays within Christchurch. We do see that evident in this bill. I guess it is just a shame that that connection to community and that valuing of heritage have run up against the immovable force of the Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery and the wider National caucus. This has meant we have not seen those same values being able to be applied in a wider sense in Christchurch.The Arts Centre building—it has been interesting listening in the House tonight to how many people from Christchurch have spoken so passionately about this place. I too have a link to Christchurch in that my mother was very proud to have adopted Canterbury for herself. She has the Crusaders theme song on her phone and is very passionate about this city now. I have visited her there many times and spent time at the Arts Centre. We have been to plays there. We have seen movies there. We have been to the art gallery there. We have had coffee there. We have been shopping there. I think it just speaks to what a hub this place is in its essence as well as in carrying so many stories which we have heard mentioned in other members’ speeches tonight around the famous people—Rutherford—who were there the meaning that is held within those buildings and the traditions as well as just everyday experiences of locals on a daily basis that are held in those buildings. They are very special for the people of Christchurch and for those of us who are not Cantabrians but have links to that place.The Arts Centre is a massive drawcard for so many foreign visitors. You see the tourists walking up and down those avenues just being drawn to that place because it is such a special place. It is wonderful to have the opportunity to speak on behalf of the preservation of that and the protection of those values and that tradition within Christchurch particularly—and I do have to mention it again—in the face of so much devastation within the central city of Christchurch. Enabled by section 38 of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act there have been 1240 demolitions within those four avenues and 20 percent of those were heritage buildings.The Majestic Centre—again there are the things I have been to there and the stories that those walls have held for the generations of people who settled in Christchurch. There is also Cranmer Court. These heritage buildings are not just old dungers as described by the Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery. They are holders of love tradition and meaning for the people of Christchurch and it has been such a loss to see so much of that taken away for wider roads—for some enforced vision created in the head of a Minister sitting most of his time in Wellington. So it is so welcome to have the opportunity to be part of something that protects a section of what was—to enable those traditions and those memories to carry on into the future and into the future well beyond us in this House.