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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 5534, 4 October 1929, Page 4

CHRISTMAS HAMPERS If you want the Best Quality and Service at Lowest Ratp Get Your Supplies from the ckoWN HOTEL, Duvauchelle. I Two Examples. 1 bottle Whiskey, 1 Brandy 1 bottle Whiskey, 1 Port 1 Port Wine, 4 Ale or Stout Wine, 6 Ale or Stout ; for 30/- for 23 A 1 'PHONE No- 3. J- DUNCAN, Proprietor.

Tales of Banks Peninsula. "Tales of Banks Peninsula" by the late H. C. Jacobson, who collected the early records from the original participants _in ou? early settlement, is a book of great interest as an historical record. A valuable contribution by the late Canon J. W. Stack deals with the Maori History of the South Island Tribes, and the famous raids of Te Rauparaha and the history of the tribes who inhabited the Peninsula. The story of the French Settlement at Akaroa and the Proclaiming of Sovereignty over the South Island at Akaroa by Captain Stanley, R.N., just before the French arrived is told with documentary evidence and at length. Governor Hobson's secret letter of instructions to Captain Stanley which was not available for publication till 1910 and Captain Stanley's report on the new settlement are valuable additions. Hempleman's purchase of Akaroa, the arrival of the first English ships, the Onawe Massacre, Stories of the *■ • early settlers and the Bays are given in detail. / "Tales of Banks Peninsula" is a crown octavo volume of 400 pages with some valuable illustrations' of well known Peninsula Residents of the earliest days of settlement and other valuable photpographs. Available at "Mail" Office. Price 7/6. Postage 6d. extra. ' 1

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