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Ground (which had been reclaimed in 1886-87). 12 Once the town’s rubbish dump behind the Grand Hotel had been closed, its former site was reclaimed and part of the area enclosed as a secure boat parking area. In the 1990s, the demand for boat storage led to the building, as a commercial venture, of boat storage sheds behind the petrol station. These sheds were large, but their placement against the base of the hill helped ensure they were not overly conspicuous. Some facilities continued to serve visitors as well as locals. The tennis courts in the Domain fell into disuse, but those behind the Grand Hotel were retained. The golf links on L’Aube Hill were closed, requiring golfers to go to Duvauchelle to play. The bowling green on Rue Jolie north, near the Recreation Ground, remained. 13 Changing tourist accommodation Although Christchurch holiday makers increasingly had their own holiday homes in Akaroa, other visitors, especially those from overseas, still needed places to stay. In the second half of the 20 th century, the nature of holiday accommodation in Akaroa changed from hotels and boarding houses to motels and back-packing establishments. Two hotel fires in 1962 contributed to the change. The Metropole burned down on 5 January, with loss of life, and the Bruce Hotel on 2 November. The site of the Metropole has been used ever since as carparking for the new supermarket which was built over part of its site. On the site of the Bruce, a new development, the Akaroa Village, went ahead, with the first part completed in 1981 (referfigure 7.3). The holiday apartments in this large development, built in two stages, were in differing architectural styles. Both represented attempts to design new buildings for Akaroa which were compatible with the town’s existing older buildings, but both were also larger and covered more of their sites than was usual for Akaroa. 14 Figure 7.3 The Akaroa Village is one of the new breed of larger holiday accommodation buildings which were built in Akaroa from the late 20 th century on. Its two parts reflect different approaches to efforts to design new buildings that fit into the historic town. 12 Booklet, Akaroa Mail in conjunction with Akaroa Civic Trust, no date [post 1975], p. 8 13 Booklet, Akaroa Mail in conjunction with Akaroa Civic Trust, no date [post 1975], p. 9 14 Tales 1940-1990, p. 9; Akaroa Museum display; Ogilvie, Cradle, p. 48; AKAROA HERITAGE OVERVIEW : SECTION 7 CHANGE AND GROWTH 1950 TO 2009 PAGE 130
The Metropole and Bruce fires left Akaroa with just two “traditional” hotels – the Grand and the Madeira (known for some years as Hotel Akaroa). They continued to offer some accommodation, but increasingly concentrated on serving drinks and food. They remained as significant historic buildings on Rue Lavaud. 15 Other private hotels and boarding houses which had operated before World War II disappeared, including the Holiday Inn, McNabs and Sea View. (Little is known about these.) New visitor accommodation came to Akaroa in the form of motels. In 1972, though there were five motels they were all small and offered only 20 units in total. 16 These early smaller motels were the start of a steady succession of new motels in Akaroa. Le Voyageur Motel on Beach Road, designed by Peter Beaven and considered by Charles Fearnley to be “in scale with and in sympathy with the other buildings of the township”, was completed in the early 1970s. Brassells Motel, in the historic Garwood building on Beach Road, opened in 1974. Other motels built in the following two decades were Akaroa Motels on Rue Jolie, the La Rive Motel at the start of Rue Lavaud and the Wai-iti Motel on the waterfront. The Club Lavaud time-share development was built near the Grand Hotel in 1988. Building of new motels continued into the last years of the 20 th century and first of the 21 st . These more recent motels included the Criterion Motel on Rue Jolie north, the La Rochelle Motel at the corner of Rues Lavaud and Grehan and the Tresori Motor Inn on Rue Jolie south. The designs of all of these new motels provoked debate in the town. Like almost all other classes of buildings, these motels were dispersed around the town. Bed and breakfast accommodation was offered in Akaroa throughout these years. One early bed and breakfast establishment was Chez La Mer (the original Madeira Hotel) which later became a backpackers. The house Oinako became White Rose Lodge (in 1987). Two old private hotels disappeared. Ilfracombe, on the Beach Road waterfront, repaired after being damaged by a fire in 1928, was finally demolished in 1969 and the Le Voyageur Motel built on its site. Garthowen, also on Beach Road and also damaged by an earlier fire (in 1937), ceased for several years to be a boarding house. In 2005-06 the forlorn remains of the old Garthowen were demolished and a new Garthowen built on the site, respecting the old building’s size, scale and general appearance without being a replica (refer figure 7.4). Blythcliffe, Windermere and The Wilderness all became for a time private homes, then resumed their roles as bed and breakfast establishments. The main campground remained some distance up Rue Balguerie until 1984, when a new holiday park was developed on a hillside site above the north end of the town, with cabins and holiday flats as well as serviced sites. 17 15 Ogilvie, Cradle, p. 48; Fearnley, Colonial Style, p. 54 16 Akaroa County District Plan, p. 46 17 Booklet, Akaroa Mail in conjunction with the Akaroa Civic Trust, no date [post 1980], accommodation directory; Ogilvie, Cradle, pp. 48-49; Booklet, Akaroa Mail in conjunction with the Akaroa Civic Trust, no date [post 1975], accommodation directory; Fearnley, Colonial Style, pp. 54-55; Akaroa Mail, 20 May 1969; Tales 1940-1990, p. 49; Area School 150, p. 17; Akaroa Mail, 13 January 2006, p. 26; the Press, 23 January 2006 AKAROA HERITAGE OVERVIEW : SECTION 7 CHANGE AND GROWTH 1950 TO 2009 PAGE 131
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A REPORT PREPARED FOR: KERI DAVIS-M
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LIST OF FIGURES: Section 2: Introdu
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Figure 6.7. Akaroa beach before WW
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Figure 7.41. View of hillside veget
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SECTION ONE: OVERVIEW Report Contex
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AKAROA: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW Sect
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It had the appearance of remoteness
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SECTION THREE: LANDSCAPE & HUMAN HI
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Paka Ariki seems to have had a less
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They appear also on occasion to hav
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The settlers were given clear title
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Commercial Hotel. (Green sold this
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Figure 4.2. The cottage built in 18
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Charlotte Godley, however, observed
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THE NATURAL AND PLANTED LANDSCAPE P
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own property in Takamatua and the n
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By 1847 cropping and stock breeding
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Figure 4.10. Father Sione's plan sh
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Figure 4.12. Plan of the Akaroa sho
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EXTANT TOWN FABRIC & FEATURES DATIN
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SECTION FIVE: THE COLONIAL TOWN 185
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Akaroa’s transformation from vill
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Although the proportion of Akaroa
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The most important concentration of
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The largest private home built in 1
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He soon built his own store and coa
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time after 1884 (probably in 1888)
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Figure 5.17. In this view looking s
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Industry Industry had less of an im
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Public institutions As Akaroa grew
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One of the organisations which met
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The first Anglican church was built
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distinctively Akaroa style of archi
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The Akaroa Mail greeted the formati
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Figure 5.28. For a time in the late
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THE COLONIAL LANDSCAPE The disappea
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By 1900 the forest was virtually go
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Figure 5.32. Walnut Avenue was the
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Figure 5.34. Charles Haylock's prop
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The resort garden and the seaside h
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The re-invigoration of the town's e
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public gardens in the colony” 122
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Britomart or Green's Point Monument
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Names on the landscape in 1900 The
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Vangioni. L. J. (1967) Old Maori pl
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Akaroa Mail, 7 September 2001 Akaro
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Appendix 2. Although Akaroa's popul
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Appendix 4. Typically, subdivisions
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Appendix 6. In 1946, the block of l
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Appendix 8. In 1953, the extensive
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Appendix 10. In 1962, one of the fi
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Appendix 12. After the major subdiv
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Appendix 14. On the south side of A
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Appendix 16. The most recent large
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Appendix 18. Nearly 20 years passed
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Appendix 20. In 1971, the block of
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Appendix 22. A 1981 subdivision saw
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Appendix 24. The Settlers Hill subd
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Appendix 26. The houses on Percy St
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