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Akaroa Historical Overview - Christchurch City Council

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A plan of the town as surveyed in 1852-1856 (refer figure 5.42) shows a number of other<br />

reserves, most of which were defined in the surveys of the early 1850s, after the<br />

founding of the Canterbury Settlement. These include an Abattoir Reserve, which had by<br />

1862 been 're-gazetted' as a cemetery reserve and apportioned between the Dissenters’<br />

Cemetery and the Roman Catholic Cemetery. 56 Strategic areas of the foreshore had also<br />

been reserved. The French and English blockhouses were constructed in 1845 on land<br />

which was clearly regarded at that early date as public ground. 57<br />

Plans drawn by Tremewan 58 , and reproduced below (refer figures 4.11 & 4.12) show the<br />

early land holdings in both the French and English parts of the town.<br />

Figure 4.11. Plan showing the layout of the French town centre.<br />

Ref: Tremewan, French <strong>Akaroa</strong>.<br />

56 Town of <strong>Akaroa</strong>, 1862, Original Black Map 105, CAIX CH765/6, ANZ <strong>Christchurch</strong><br />

57 Walton, An Inventory of New Zealand Redoubts, Stockades and Blockhouses, p. 9<br />

58 Tremewan, French <strong>Akaroa</strong><br />

AKAROA HERITAGE OVERVIEW : SECTION 4 THE FRENCH VILLAGE 1840 TO 1850 PAGE 29

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