A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17575, 27 June 1925, Page 9

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

VERY EARLY DAYS IN CANTERBURY An address by Mr G. Harper on v early days in Canterbury attract*! large number of members cf the Can bury Pilgrims' Association to the q terly meeting of the association in Art Gallery this afternoon. In spits the damp, bleak weather, between and 300 members attended. The r ority were old people, and several ] sengers by the first four ships in 1 were amongst them. Mr J. A. Fles! president, was in the chair. Mr Harper, instead of beginning the arrival of the first four ships, ished there. He began practically ab 1825, 100 years ago. and dealt part larlv with the period from 1835 to 1 showing the work of early surve; on the Canterbury Plains and tT journeys west and south. lie m tinned Captain Thomas, Air Tucket, Tollie, Air Torlesse and others, s quoted from statements by Bisl Selwyn showing the bishop's imp i sions of the Plains as seen from j Port Hills. ! He did not use any statistics to sh the progress made, and in place j thv.n, he displayed old maps and r j c-nes, and compared the conditions I settlement they represent. His addi ! covered the first settlements on Bai . Peninsula, as well as in Lyttelton I I bour and on the Plains. lie explaii . that a great deal of his informat j had been collected from the “Can ; bury Papers” and other early publ *