OLD AKAROA BUILDING
Council Offer To Museum The former district Customs House at Akaroa, now more than 100 years old, has been offered to the LangloisEtevenaux House Museum Board by the Akaroa County Council.
It had been decided previously that the building would be demolished, but on the recommendation of the Akaroa County Town Committee, which heard a deputation from the association of friends of the museum, the council decided to hand over the building provided it is moved from its present site. The site was allotted for a Customs house soon after Akaroa was declared a Customs port of entry in 1842, and was not closed as such until 1928.
Lands and Survey Department plans of 1853 show the building, which has sod-lined walls, and is mainly of totara. The small chimney in the building is built of bricks made in Akaroa by early French settlers named Libeau.
Since 1928 the building has been used as a gardener’s tool-shed.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32050, 26 July 1969, Page 14
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