Community Centre
ISINGHOLME Community Centre at Opawa, a Christchurch suburb, is the subject of next week’s YA-YZ Women’s Session documentary programme on Wednesday morning. Risingholme was at once time the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Reeves, who laid its foundation stone in 1864. The beautiful property gradually became divided up and in 1943 the Reserves Committee of the Christchurch City Council was considering taking it over as a public park. However, they were forestalled by the late Sir John McKenzie, who presented the property as a gift to the city. At a public meeting in 1944, Risingholme became a Community Centre. The Christchurch Technical College supplied instructors wherever a class of 24 could be arranged. The Centre provides facilities for children of kindergarten and play centre age as well as for their elders. There is a flourishing Junior, as well as an Adult Drama League, The Adult Drama League recently won the New Zealand Drama League Festival contest. The Risingholme choir is well known in Christchurch musical life, and there are classes in woodwork, millinery, dressmaking, pottery and advanced ceramics for the practical-minded. About 500 people are attending classes at Risingholme this year, and they will be using the new hall and the woodwork and pottery shops recently built and paid for by themselves.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 874, 4 May 1956, Page 15
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