BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 135

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A dairy in a shipping container on Colombo Street. This is the tented section on the outside for fruit and vegetables.

Addington Action.

Other, National Library of New Zealand

Group established to help residents after the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch. Includes information about housing, fruit & vegetable cooperatives and clothing aid.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2095

Images, UC QuakeStudies

View of the corner of Montreal and Victoria Street. In the background is a vacant lot left by buildings that has been demolished, and on the right is Gordon Smith & Sons fruit and vegetable shop.

Best Of The Week for 7 September 2012

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 7th of September. This week......two years after the BIG Earthquake in Christchurch, and the Pike River Mine Disaster, how did the media respond to those events ... Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires; The History of Corpse medicine from the Renaissance to The Victorians ... a primary school project gets back to growing fruit and vegetables ... a Maori carving from A german prisoner of War camp comes back home ... the human side of Google ... and an affectionate look back at Broadcasts To Schools.