Bay Harbour: September 01, 2021

Wednesday September 1 2021 Bay Harbour News
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“There are a lot of disability
books out there that only reach a
certain community,” she said.
“In this book, the disability is
only really subtly part of the story.
It’s not mentioned, it’s just how it
is.”
A woman living in Canada
reached out to Milne recently over
Instagram.
She told Milne, that she was
waiting in her car, scrolling
through Instagram looking
through the CMV hashtag, when
her daughter who has CMV
looked over her shoulder and said,
“look Mum, there’s me,” pointing
to Milne’s character with a hearing
aid.
“I read this and thought, my job
is done.”
Kiwis and Koalas will officially
launch on September 19, at
10.30am in the Sumner Surf Lifesaving
Club.
In collaboration with Sumner
cafe Niche, people can exchange
the coloured-in invite for a free
fluffy and hot drink on the 19th.
On the day of the launch, there
will be face painting, a Q+A,
and a reading of the book with a
Deaf Aotearoa NZSL interpreter
present.
•Check www.facebook.
com/Kiwisandkoalasbook
for any updates and
changes to the book launch
date.
Painting of Lyttelton in
1850 by J. Gibb
Coming around the crest of
the Christchurch (now Sumner)
Rd into Cavendish Bay, one
would have been greeted by
the stony cliffs of Okete Upoko
where the hotly contested Port
Cooper Deed of Sale was signed
just the year before by Ngāi Tahu
rangatira and a representative of
the British Crown.
The ‘Basket of Heads’ overlooks
the slopes of the ancient
Ngati Mamoe settlement of
Ōhinehou where, in Gibb’s
painting, John Robert Godley’s
Canterbury Association has
been busy building a lovely
two-storey six-bedroom home
for his soon to arrive wife Charlotte
and family.
Godley’s House stands in
that last bend of Christchurch
Rd before it turns left into
Oxford St and plunges down
to the jetty. The house’s
foundations were discovered
beneath Plunket House at 4
Sumner Rd when the latter was
demolished after the February
22, 2011, earthquake.
In front of that, on the corner
of Oxford St, stands the land
agent’s office, home, and stables.
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The remainder of the buildings
in that block all the way down to
the seawall is the Immigration
Barracks housing the bulk of the
Canterbury Association’s
first customers – colonial settlers
bound for the Canterbury
Plains.
NEWS 11
Treasures from the past
Reproduction of a painting of Lyttelton in 1850 by J. Gibb
Te Ūaka The Lyttelton Museum reference 14625.11
https://www.teuaka.org.nz/online-collection/1135379 ​
According to the builder
Captain Thomas, the barracks
consisted of “four large
emigration barracks holding
from 200 to 300 people (nearly
completed); kitchen and wash
house, privies, well 44 feet deep
. . . all enclosed with fence and
gates.”
These excellent
accommodations, as well
as the jetty, the roads, 25
houses, two hotels, and a small
customs house, were all built by
Lyttelton’s founding population
of 100 European and 100 Māori
workers, all under the employ of
the association.
While initially overwhelmed
by the more than 800 new
arrivals on the first fleet of
four ships, the barracks would
also become the town centre,
allegedly housing at one time
or another over the ensuing
years: a library; a courthouse;
Reverend Dudley’s church (now
the British Hotel); Reverend
Cotterill’s grammar school
(before moving to Christ’s
College); as well as the town hall
and even a collegiate precursor
to Canterbury University, all
as needed while the town of
Lyttelton grew steadily outwards
from its modest colonial
beginnings.
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