Green light for go (mention)

Source: Waikato Times print edition

6 March 2004
By MARY ANN GILL

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[Tourism Waikato's new CEO John Rasmussen is] also in favour of the Riff Raff statue in honour of Rocky Horror creator Richard O'Brien, who was brought up in Hamilton.

"Copenhagen has a mermaid, Napier has Pania -- it's exactly the sort of odd icon we should have," he says.

The entrepreneurs of the world would make a success of it and it would bring conventions and interest.

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