Selwyn Times: October 14, 2020
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Wednesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2020</strong> <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
NEWS 11<br />
$12,000 plan to restore<br />
historic whale pots<br />
RELICS OF Akaroa’s<br />
whaling days will be restored<br />
after decades of damage<br />
often caused by children<br />
clambering in and out of the<br />
large cast-iron try pots on the<br />
foreshore.<br />
A $12,000 conservation<br />
project will start soon, with<br />
the three pots on Beach Rd to<br />
be carefully prised from their<br />
broken brickwork setting and<br />
then removed for intensive<br />
restoration.<br />
The triple try pots – dating<br />
back to the early 1800s –<br />
have gradually deteriorated<br />
in the face of the corrosive<br />
sea environment and their<br />
popularity with hands-on<br />
young visitors to Beach<br />
Rd. Whalers used the pots<br />
– which would sit on ship<br />
decks or in whaling stations<br />
dotted on the foreshore<br />
around New Zealand from the<br />
1830s – to boil down whale<br />
blubber for use in lamps and<br />
soap. The pots were usually<br />
organised in a “nest”, with<br />
a fire lit underneath. The<br />
shore-whaling era on Banks<br />
Peninsula ended about 1850.<br />
All three pots came from<br />
local whaling stations, with<br />
the centre pot – created by<br />
the Coalbrookdale foundry in<br />
Shropshire, England – moved<br />
to the township from nearby<br />
Peraki Bay. The other two pots<br />
probably came from Whakamoa<br />
Bay.<br />
The pots have rusted and<br />
pitted, requiring delicate conservation<br />
work that does not<br />
lessen the heritage value of the<br />
original structures. They will<br />
be carefully cleaned and the<br />
corrosion will be treated at a<br />
conservator’s workshop, with<br />
a blend of natural oils.<br />
Along with the pots, preparations<br />
are also under way to<br />
remove and restore the nearby<br />
Britomart Cannon. The<br />
timber sections of the carriage<br />
require extensive repairs.<br />
The Lieutenant Governor<br />
of New Zealand, Captain<br />
William Hobson, sent a ship,<br />
the Britomart, to Akaroa<br />
in 1840 to establish British<br />
authority before the arrival<br />
of the French. While the<br />
1808 Kinman cannon on the<br />
Akaroa foreshore is not from<br />
the ship, it is very similar.<br />
It came to New Zealand for<br />
display at the 1906-1907<br />
International Exhibition in<br />
Christchurch following a<br />
request from Akaroa mayor<br />
Etienne Le Lievre.<br />
The cannon has been at its<br />
present site since 1908.<br />
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