Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 28, 2017 17:21:07 GMT 12
CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL SPENT $14K ON FINDING A NAME FOR NEW LIBRARY
The Christchurch city council spent that much hiring an external creative agency to come up with a name for the library being built on the corner of Gloucester St and Cathedral Square.
It hired Plato Creative earlier this year to determine a suitable way to name the facility, and to come up with an English descriptor. It cost $14,650.
It recommended the English descriptor be A Place of Discovery, which would be used mostly for communications and marketing.
City councillors on Thursday decided to call the library Tūranga, the name gifted by Matapopore Charitable Trust and Ngāi Tūāhuriri.
While most city councillors were happy with the Maori name, they did not seem fussed with the English descriptor that Plato Creative came up with......
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11927539
The Christchurch city council spent that much hiring an external creative agency to come up with a name for the library being built on the corner of Gloucester St and Cathedral Square.
It hired Plato Creative earlier this year to determine a suitable way to name the facility, and to come up with an English descriptor. It cost $14,650.
It recommended the English descriptor be A Place of Discovery, which would be used mostly for communications and marketing.
City councillors on Thursday decided to call the library Tūranga, the name gifted by Matapopore Charitable Trust and Ngāi Tūāhuriri.
While most city councillors were happy with the Maori name, they did not seem fussed with the English descriptor that Plato Creative came up with......
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11927539