SOMETHING ABOUT AKAROA

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22419, 4 June 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)

SOMETHING ABOUT AKAROA

■We- have hnHI a great deal about ■Akaroa this last week, for a French sloop, has been visiting hs,and hu called at the historic little township. Here are one-, or two. facts .about the town that perhaps are. new to y«MU

Do you. know that the French settlers. sailed into Akaroa harbour 10 years before the historic First; Four Ships came to Lyttelton? There were many children among the settlers

Do you know that when they caino to ’ Canterbury in 1840 the French settlers brought, water-cress w|th them? They'planted it in Akaroa, and Mr Deans, of Deans Bush, later saw it. and took some of .lt hack with hiitw and planted It In ' tho River Avon

Do you know that the vveepmij willows on, the banks of the .River Avon in Christchurch came' from Akaroa. The French settlers, sailing: for New Zealand, in 1810, clDtil at St. Helena, and took slips from the willows which grew on the grave of the Emperor Nanoleon at St. Helena, So our willows are Napoleon’s willows, too Teacher: If you had. ninepfmee halfpenny in your pocket anid fdurpence, what would you have in. your-pocket? . Tommy: A hole, teachers- : —JOHN.