BANKS PENINSULA.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20731, 16 December 1932, Page 35

BANKS PENINSULA.

CONTINUED. -_„« t ..„ fast I iLgSgbovr far it is possible to restore Akaroa Harbour, Harbour is like Lyttelton ia being divided at the head Ltedwp ba > s ' an<i lho P eninsula of Mtrais'onc of the first objects to take to(r«' J,cre in isyl Te Eau P araha > jy, Jiving taken and destroyed the -upt pa at Kaiapohia, killing over a ■jJjgJjßd of its inhabitants, by guile w i the impregnable fortress on ftgpre whither many 01 the Kaiapohia ZL/had Hed—and consummated a _-esd slaughter. Gill* other side of the harbour, just fl f Akaroa. lies Bed House Bay Spnneke), and here ia IS2S the \Zfft Kaoparaha liad come with the JJlfrl assi'staneo of Captain Stewart JTifie brig Elizabeth, and inveigled on 10$ a noted tohunga, Te Waiharanui, Tdte and daughter, and many of the fLjjjteßta. being secured, their *jbg6\r&s attacked and all who could frftaght were slaughtered and the -friers taken off to Eapiti and Cook topft. to a worse fate. too, Ehodes, in 1839, landed the *•£r'c*ttle to be introduced into Canyfrarj, and it was in order to drive cattle to Pigeon Bay that Hay -jjgari,his path to a track. sgjgfKT crowds about the place, for **!•«* Green's Point that in 1840 ggjaia Stanley held a Court, one of A| J« held at various places about tjgotis." where Europeans were estabtAtS. Ja. French Bay lies tho town of -jjgna, and it was so called because •&j Jreaeh who arrived in the Comte feTferia in 3840 settled here, while the finnan who came by the same vessel ggJed ia the bay to the north, thence

f aJW fisssan Bay, a name changed to&Xlfc Great rVar to the original KlMi*aui Tafcamatua. Instruction of Bush. I|jflftyß.at the head of the harbour sawmills, and it may be *BI .Sat from Duvauchelle alone feet of timber, mostly totara, *j|pS to have been cut. Several •PM'fpsaelß were - built here, vessels *Bpt3Mal timber to oarry local tim*p& tfcff Lyttclton and Christchureh i Wwfc 'lie feather from the goose'a flfiffcdged the arrow -which killed HtMie. Much of the bush on the *Wj>& W3s used for firewood and "llftj asuea was wasted in the firing B*W*»ftl bobb, cad in 1863 an accimSA MaflagratiiMi, spreading from *W fey, devastated a huge area. flgjpftaix Banks Peninsula has had *KJWtis»a of fire: one at the time J*P«rtb, when it grew from desogStt beauty, one at the time of the Sffjf Quterbtiry, when that natural JJBfc***' ■lowly destroyed. True, anhas taken its place, one jjBNW with the pleasant homes of SffijjP it is my hope that these men, fSßjsJ*g an the former loveliness of will, by planting and JSP' «a«mmgement, bring back Sj? that singing and flowering ifff *£ fern and bird and tree.