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Figure 5.35. The garden at The Glen. Paired Cordylines signal the formal entrance. A second path separates the orchard from the kitchen garden and a glasshouse is visible to the right of the house. Climbers are fashionably draped along the verandah and a pine shelter belt can be seen behind the house. Ref: 2124 Figure 5.36. Part of the garden at Haylock House, (now known as Akaroa House) 13 Alymer Valley Road. Built in 1883 for the Mayor the garden still contains a number of original plantings including a norfolk pine of significant proportions, a kowhia and a cabbage tree. which has reached landmark proportions. AKAROA HERITAGE OVERVIEW : SECTION 5 THE COLONIAL TOWN 1850 TO 1900 PAGE 70
The resort garden and the seaside holiday A resort hierarchy which had developed in the mid 19 th century saw Akaroa become the destination of choice for Canterbury and Otago working class families. Organised excursions to Akaroa and other Peninsula bays began very soon after Christchurch had been founded at the end of 1850 and by the 1860s Akaroa was being referred to as “the Brighton of Canterbury”. 106 In 1870 the Illustrated Australia News described it as “one of the pleasant summer retreats for the hardworking merchants and tradesmen of Christchurch and Dunedin, by whom and their young families it is annually crowded”. The sea voyage from Dunedin, it was said, added to the enjoyment of the vacation. 107 Associated with this burgeoning tourist industry, the hotel and the guest house garden emerged as a new and distinct garden type in Akaroa. A blend of private and public landscape, these were often extensive gardens with carefully laid out walks through impressive orchards and ornamental shrubberies which often included native species. Their commanding views of the harbour and the salubrity of the location were important elements of the garden and their aesthetic and health giving properties were marketed to invalids and convalescents as well as family groups. This had much to do with contemporary environmental theory that held that the stale air of cities was potentially harmful whereas areas located near the coast which were 'cleansed by sea breezes' were beneficial to one's health. This view was echoed by William Dawber when he decided to make Akaroa his home in 1869: “Christchurch is not a healthy place, Banks Peninsula is very healthy”, he wrote. 108 In the resort gardens of Akaroa, 'seekers of health or pleasure' were able to breathe fresh sea air mingled with the perfume of the surrounding flowers. They dined on local butter and Peninsula cheese; fresh flounder, oysters and crayfish were caught daily in the harbour and vegetables were provided from the establishments’ gardens. Guests were encouraged to help themselves to fruit and nuts in the orchards which for many, including Dawber who was staying at Waeckerle's Hotel on Rue Lavaud, was a novelty. “We are to help ourselves to what fruit we like to eat out of the garden... We eat dozens of peaches daily, we go into the garden and help ourselves” he wrote. 109 It is likely that the grounds of many of these hotels and guest houses were professionally laid out by the nurserymen or gardeners working in Akaroa at this time. Certainly promotional material for Wagstaff's Family and Commercial Hotel on Beach Rd suggests that by 1875 the garden was designed as an attraction in its own right with built-in recreational facilities as well as passive amenity. “The grounds to the Hotel extend onesixth of a mile along a sea beach, and from every part beautiful views of the Harbour of Akaroa can be entertained. They are tastefully laid out and contain beautiful shrubberies, Flower Borders, Croquet Lawns, Archery Grounds, Shady Walks, Cool Arbours and one of the best orchards in Akaroa”. 110 106 Ogilvie, Cradle, pp. 7-8, 39 107 Illustrated Australia News, 1870 as quoted in Hargreaves & Hearn, New Zealand in the Mid Victorian era 108 Diary of Robert and Rebecca Dawber, p. 85 109 Diary of Robert and Rebecca Dawber, p. 79 110 Southern Provinces Almanac, 1875 AKAROA HERITAGE OVERVIEW : SECTION 5 THE COLONIAL TOWN 1850 TO 1900 PAGE 71
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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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Page 43 and 44: EXTANT TOWN FABRIC & FEATURES DATIN
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Page 47 and 48: Akaroa’s transformation from vill
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Page 63 and 64: Public institutions As Akaroa grew
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Page 75 and 76: THE COLONIAL LANDSCAPE The disappea
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Page 79 and 80: Figure 5.32. Walnut Avenue was the
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Page 89 and 90: Britomart or Green's Point Monument
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Page 95 and 96: Public buildings and structures •
Page 97 and 98: AKAROA: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW Sect
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Page 101 and 102: with the previous half century. Two
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Page 109 and 110: Building a dairy factory in Akaroa
Page 111 and 112: Community Life Between 1900 and 195
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Page 117 and 118: Power from the Lake Coleridge power
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Figure 6.34. Aylmers Valley Road in
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Figure 6.36. The Narbey family home
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c SNAPSHOT OF AKAROA IN 1950 Descri
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Public buildings and structures •
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SECTION SEVEN: CHANGE AND GROWTH 19
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When the Akaroa County first drew u
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The Metropole and Bruce fires left
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offered from the 1970s and more rec
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By the late 20 th century, a town w
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ensure as far as possible that the
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Figure 7.7. In this aerial view tak
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This expectation was fulfilled. In
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On Rue Balguerie, subdivision in 19
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But the spread of houses onto those
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Figure 7.16. Some architects who de
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Farrell stated her case against the
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Figure 7.19. Behind the recent and
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Figure 7.22. The Haylock House on A
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In 1970 a local complained to the w
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Figure 7.25. The new gymnasium on t
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Figure 7.26. General view of Akaroa
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palms, sumach, chestnuts and walnut
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Commemorative fabric and historic t
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The changing face of the Domain Dur
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Cemetery reserves: “nothing but c
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widened in part to better accommoda
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Figure 7.38. 1972 map of Akaroa . P
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c SNAPSHOT OF AKAROA TODAY The seco
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EXTANT TOWN FABRIC DATING FROM 1950
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Come to Akaroa Canterbury’s Premi
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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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Appendix 28. As development extende
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Appendix 30. As development crept u
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