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Christchurch City Council, PO Box 73015, Christchurch

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CCC/ARC/101/1

City of Christchurch

Yearbook

1910-1911

Condition

This book is in good

condition with marbled

back and front inside

cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and

making them available

online for this entire

collection

Contains information surrounding local government involvement in the development of

Christchurch.

Information included in this volume pertains to:

Abattoirs; Annual Elections, etc; Area of the City (4,798 acres ,with 134 miles of streets), Authorised

Loans;

Bands, Subsidy to (the Council spends £250 annually in subsidising 5 bands to give open-air concerts

in the Rotundas); Bath Charges (Plunge Bath, including one towel and soap, 6d., or 6 baths for 2/6d.

Tepid Swimming Pool, single Bath 6d., or 3 baths for 1/-, Boys under 16 – 4 swimming baths for 1/-.;

Baths (public – include 4 soap baths, 10 shower baths, 12 plunge baths, sufficient lavatory and

sanitary conveniences etc), Building Permits (number issued to 31 March 1910 was 470);

Cab Fares (for Hackney Carriage); Cemeteries (2 public cemeteries- one at Bromley, the other in

Milton Street); Chief Cities Population Count; Christchurch Fire Board; City Members of House of

Representatives; City Organ (purchased by the Government for use in connection with the NZ

International Exhibition held in Christchurch in 1906-07 and donated to Christchurch’s His Majesty’s

Theatre); City Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners; City Solicitor; City Water Supply (the Central,

Linwood and St Albans Wards are served by a High Pressure Water Supply derived from 4 artesian

wells…..at the foot of Cashmere Hills); Committees;

Destructor (The City Refuse is destroyed in a Beaman and Dee’s Two-unit Destructor and the steam

produced assists to operate an electrical plant and the electric current is sold for lighting and power –

it also warms the water of the 100ft x 36ft Tepid Swimming Pool); Drainage (70 miles of sewers and

17 miles of storm water sewers laid);

Elections; Electrical Lighting and Power Rates; Electric Tramways (the number of passengers carried

during the year was 12,674,636); Empty Dwelling houses (304); Expenditure and Receipts;

Freehold Land; Gas Supply; Inhabited Dwellings (11,633); Loans Authorised; Mayor, Councillors and

Officers (list and some telephone numbers); Public Parks and Reserves; Past Chairmen and Mayors;

Rateable Buildings (13,417); Rateable Value; Statutory Meetings; Stores and Warehouses (1,480);

Underground conveniences (male and female – the doors to all the w.c’s are fitted with penny-in-

the-slot locks).

Mayor Charles Allison Esq. (p.2)

Council Chambers (Municipal Council Chambers (p.5)

The Avon flowing through the Gardens, Christchurch, NZ (p.6)

View of Cathedral Square (p.9)

Hospital grounds (p.13)

Waterfall of City Council’s Reserve, Geraldine (p.17)

Pumping Station (p. 19)

Generating Station (p.25)

Rolleston Avenue (p.27)




CCC/ARC/101/2


Yearbook

1911-1912

Condition

This book is in

reasonable condition

with floral front and

back inside cover

NB: spine deterioration.

HANDLE WITH CARE

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection

Contains information surrounding local government involvement in the development of

Christchurch



Loans;

Bands, Subsidy to (the Council subsidises bands to give open-air concerts in the Rotundas); Bath

Charges ( Plunge Bath, including one towel and soap, 6d., or 6 baths for 2/6d. Tepid Swimming Pool,

single Bath 6d., or 3 baths for 1/-, Boys under 16 – 4 swimming baths for 1/-.; Baths (public – include

4 soap baths, 10 shower baths, 12 plunge baths, sufficient lavatory and sanitary conveniences etc),

Building Permits (number issued to 31 March 1911 was 576);

Cab Fares (for Hackney Carriage); Cemeteries (2 public cemeteries- one at Bromley, the other in

Milton Street); Chief Cities Population Count; Christchurch Fire Board; City Members of House of

Representatives; City Organ (purchased by the Government for use in connection with the NZ

International Exhibition held in Christchurch in 1906-07 and donated to Christchurch’s His Majesty’s

Theatre); City Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners; City Solicitor; City Water Supply (the Central,

Linwood and St Albans Wards are served by a High Pressure Water Supply derived from 4 artesian

wells…..at the foot of Cashmere Hills); Committees;




17 miles of storm water sewers laid);


during the year was 13,710,890); Empty Dwelling houses (348); Expenditure and Receipts;


Officers (list and some telephone numbers); Public Parks and Reserves; Past Chairmen and Mayors;

Rateable Buildings (13,950); Rateable Value; Statutory Meetings; Stores and Warehouses (1,522);

Underground conveniences (male and female – the doors to all the w.c’s are fitted with penny-in-

the-slot locks).

The Late Mayor Thomas Edward Taylor Esq., M.P.(Elected April,

1911; Died 27 July 1911) (p.2)

Mayor J.J. Dougall, Esq. (p.5)

Provincial Council Chambers (p.7)

City Council Chambers (Municipal Council Chambers) p.9

Victoria Square (includes image of the Pom Pom gun now

maintained by Godley Head Heritage Trust) (p.13)

Tea Kiosk, Botanical Gardens (p.17)

Technical College (p.23)

Municipal Tepid Swimming Bath (p.25) (pool in use)

Sumner (p.27)

New Brighton (p.31)




CCC/ARC/101/3


Yearbook

1919-1920

Condition


condition with plain

white back and front

inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection

The City of Christchurch was first incorporated by the Municipal Council Ordinance,

Session XIV., No. 2, of the Province of Canterbury, the late Sir John Hall being the first

Chairman, in 1862 and the late Mr William Wilson first Mayor in 1968. On 1st

April 1903,

the adjoining Boroughs of Linwood, St Albans and Sydenham were united with the City,

and became Wards under the same names, the old City forming the Central Ward. The

City was further enlarged on 1st

April 1907, 1st

April 1911, 3rd

April 1914, 2nd

October 1916

and 20th

March 1917



Loans;


Charges (Plunge Bath, including one towel and soap, 6d., or 6 baths for 2/6d. Tepid Swimming Pool,

single Bath 6d., or 3 baths for 1/-, Boys and Girls under 16 – single bath, 3d or 6 swimming baths for

1/-.; Baths (public – is now the finest in Australasia. Water is changed daily and is of a delicate blue

tint, and a temperature of 80˚ – boasts hanging baskets of ferns, swim lanes, rings, trapeze,

climbing rope, and other gymnastic apparatus etc), Building Permits (number issued to 31 March

1919 was 215).

Cab Fares (for Hackney Carriage); Cemeteries (3 public cemeteries - Bromley and Canal Reserve, the

other in Milton Street); Chief Cities Population Count; Christchurch Fire Board; City Members of

House of Representatives; City Organ (purchased by the Government for use in connection with the

NZ International Exhibition held in Christchurch in 1906-07 and donated to Christchurch’s “His

Majesty’s Theatre”); City Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners; City Solicitor; City Water Supply

(the City is served by a High Pressure Water Supply derived from 7 artesian wells…..at the foot of

Cashmere Hills); Committees.




22 miles of storm water sewers laid).


during the year was 20,796,940); Empty Dwelling houses (392); Expenditure and Receipts.


Officers (list and some telephone numbers); Public Libraries; Public Parks and Reserves; Past

Chairmen and Mayors; Rateable Buildings (16,231); Rateable Value; Statutory Meetings; Stores and

Warehouses (2,124); Underground conveniences (male and female – the doors to all the w.c’s are

fitted with penny-in-the-slot locks).

Mayor Dr H.T.J. Thacker, M.P. (p.2)

Cathedral Square (p.8)

The Rosery [sic] Domain Gardens (p.12)

View of Avon River (p.22)

Statue of Captain R.F. Scott, R.N. (p.32)

Municipal Garage (Municipal Electric Vehicles Garage) (p. 32)

Tepid Swimming Pool (p.35)

Cathedral Square Peace Day (p.42)




CCC/ARC/101/4


Yearbook

1920-1921

Condition



pink back and front

inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,

the adjoining Boroughs of Linwood, St Albans and Sydenham were united with the City,

and became Wards under the same names, the old City forming the Central Ward. The

City was further enlarged on 1st

April 1907, 1st

April 1911, 3rd

April 1914, 2nd

October 1916

and 20th

March 1917.



Loans;


Charges (Plunge Bath, including one towel and soap, 6d., or 6 baths for 2/6d. Tepid Swimming Pool,

single Bath 6d., or 3 baths for 1/-, Boys and Girls under 16 – single bath, 3d or 6 swimming baths for

1/-.; Baths (public – is now the finest in Australasia. Water is changed daily and is of a delicate blue

tint, and a temperature of 80˚ – boasts hanging baskets of ferns, swim lanes, rings, trapeze,

climbing rope, and other gymnastic apparatus etc), Building Permits (number issued to 31 March

1920 was 517).

Cab Fares (for Hackney Carriage); Cemeteries (3 public cemeteries –Buckley’s Road and Canal

Reserve- Bromley, the other in Milton Street); Chief Cities Population Count; Christchurch Fire Board;

City Members of House of Representatives; City Organ (purchased by the Government for use in

connection with the NZ International Exhibition held in Christchurch in 1906-07 and donated to

Christchurch’s “His Majesty’s Theatre”); City Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners; City Solicitor;

City Water Supply (the City is served by a High Pressure Water Supply derived from 7 artesian

wells…..at the foot of Cashmere Hills); Committees.




22 miles of storm water sewers laid).

Elections; Electric Generating Station; Electrical Lighting and Power Rates; Electric Tramways (the

number of passengers carried during the year was 25,973,655); Empty Dwelling houses (61);

Expenditure and Receipts.


Officers (list and some telephone numbers); Other Local Bodies; Public Parks and Reserves; Past

Chairmen and Mayors; Public Libraries; Rateable Buildings (16,459); Rateable Value; Statement of

Public Debt; Statutory Meetings; Stores and Warehouses (2,149); Underground conveniences (male

Mayor Dr H.T.J. Thacker, M.P. (p.2)

View of River Avon (same photograph as in previous Yearbook)

(p.8)

Sumner: a popular Seaside Resort (includes Pier next to Cave

Rock) (p.12)

King George V. Coronation House (p. 20)

The Rose Garden, Christchurch Domain (p. 28)

Electricity Showroom (MED) (p.32)

View in Rolleston Avenue (street lined with large trees) (p.36)

Tepid Swimming Pool (not in use)



and female – the doors to all the w.c’s are fitted with penny-in-the-slot locks).




CCC/ARC/101/5


Yearbook

1923-1924

Condition



grey back and front

inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,

the adjoining Boroughs of Linwood, St Albans and Sydenham were united with the City.

The City was further enlarged on 1st

April 1907, by the inclusion of Beckenham and

Fisherton, on 1st

April 1911 by North Linwood, on 3rd

April 1914 by North Richmond, 2nd

October, 1916, by Opawa, 20th

March 1917 by Avonside and St Martins, 1st

April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st

November 1921 by Woolston, 10th

July 1922 by Hagley Park, 1st

April 1923

by the inclusion of Papanui and Bromley.



Loans;


Charges; Baths (public – is now the finest in Australasia. Water supplied from an artesian bore is

changed daily and is of a delicate blue tint, with a temperature of 80˚ – boasts swim lanes, 6 Roman

rings, 2 springboards and 4 diving platforms); Building Permits (number issued to 31 March 1923

was 899).

Cab or Motor Cab Fares and Carriers plying for Hire; Cemeteries (3 public cemeteries –Buckley’s Road

and Canal Reserve- Bromley, the other in Milton Street); Carriers’ Fares; Chief Cities Population

Count; Christchurch Fire Board; City Members of House of Representatives; City Rates; City Sinking

Fund Commissioners; City Water Supply (the City is served by a High Pressure Water Supply derived

from 7 artesian wells…..at the foot of Cashmere Hills); Committees.

Destructor (The City Refuse is destroyed in a Meldrum Two-unit Destructor and the steam produced

assists to operate an electrical plant and the electric current is sold for lighting and power – it also

warms the water of the 100ft x 36ft Tepid Swimming Pool however arrangements are being made to

heat the water by electricity); Drainage (115 miles of sewers and 22 miles of storm water sewers

laid).

Elections; Electric Generating Station; Electrical Lighting and Power Rates; Electrical Terms; Electric

Tramways (the number of passengers carried during the year was 25,188,624); Expenditure and

Receipts.

Fees payable for Licenses; Freehold Land; Gas Supply; Inhabited Dwellings (19,064); Licensed Public

Buildings and their seating capacity; Loans Authorised; Mayor, Councillors and Officers (telephone

numbers and addresses); Population, City and Suburbs (113,400); Public Parks and Reserves; Past

Chairmen and Mayors; Public Libraries; Rateable Buildings (21,379); Rateable Value; Staff; Statement

of Public Debt; Statutory Meetings; Stores and Warehouses (2,315); Underground conveniences

Mayor J.A. Flesher, O.B.E. (p2.)

The Rosery, Domain Gardens (p. 11)

Tepid Swimming Pool (not in use, different photograph from

previous Yearbook) Brighton (pull out smaller photograph)

(p.15)

Electricity Department’s Showroom (MED) (different

photograph from previous Yearbook) Brighton (pull out smaller

photograph) (p.19)

Cathedral Square (different from previous Yearbook

photographs) Brighton (pull out larger photograph) (p. 23)

Bridge of Remembrance (sketch) Christchurch War Memorial

1914 – 1919) (p.38)

Rolleston Avenue (p.46)

Lyttelton, the Port of Christchurch (pull out larger photograph)

(p.53)

Provincial Council Chambers (p.56)



(male and female – the doors to all the w.c’s are fitted with penny-in-the-slot locks); Utilities

controlled by the Council.




CCC/ARC/101/6


Yearbook (marbled

front and back inside

cover)

1925-1926

Condition

Two copies in good



cover. *One copy has

photo on p.8 coming

loose

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923



Abattoirs; Advances to Ratepayers-Electrical/Sewerage; Annual Elections, etc; Area of the City

(10,580 acres ,with 241 miles of streets), Authorised Loans;


Charges; Baths Closed (public holidays); Baths Tepid (public – opened 14th

May 1908 - is now the

finest in Australasia. Water supplied from an artesian bore is changed daily and is of a delicate blue

tint, with a temperature of 80˚ – on 15th

September 1923 an electric heater of 1,200 KW capacity

was installed permanently assisting the exhaust steam heat from the Destructor – baths boasts

swim lanes, 6 Roman rings, 2 springboards and 4 diving platforms); Building Permits (number issued

to 31 March 1925 was 1,195).

Cab or Motor Cab Fares and Carriers plying for Hire; Canterbury Museum; Cemeteries (3 public

cemeteries –Buckley’s Road and Canal Reserve- Bromley, the other in Milton Street); Chief Cities

Population Count; Christchurch Fire Board; City Members of House of Representatives; City

Enlarged; City Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners; City Water Supply (the City is served by a

High Pressure Water Supply derived from 16 artesian wells…..10 at the foot of Cashmere Hills, 3 at

Sydenham, 3 at St Albans); Concert Hall Proposed; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices.

Destructor (The City Refuse is destroyed in a Meldrum Two-unit Destructor – during the last year

18,462 loads of refuse, including 714 loads of fish, 5,275 loads of clinker and 700 loads of tins;

Drainage (118 miles of sewers and 22 miles of storm water sewers laid).

Elections; Electric Generating Station; Electrical Lighting and Power Rates; Electrical Terms; Electrical

Dept Trading Activities; Electric Tramways (the number of passengers carried during the year was

25,051,849); Expenditure and Receipts.

Fees payable for Licenses; Freehold Land; Gas Supply; Housing; Inhabited Dwellings (19,763);

Latitude (43˚ 31’ 48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13” East); Left Parcel Offices; Licensed Public

Buildings and their seating capacity; Loans Authorised; Loans to Build; Mayor, Councillors and

Officers (telephone numbers and addresses); Members of the Legislative Council; Motor Car Parking

Mayor Rev. J.K. Archer (p.1)

Victoria Park and Supreme Court Buildings (p.8)*

Entrance to Council Chambers (p.11)

Municipal Offices, Manchester Street (p.15)

Public Offices, New Municipal Buildings (p.19)

Tepid Swimming Pool (Swimmers all posed for camera) (p. 21)

View in Cathedral Square (p.25)

Winter Garden in Botanic Gardens (p.27)

Hereford Street Bridge (p.31)

Halswell Quarry (pull out larger photograph) (p.33)

Canterbury College (p. 37)


Sunken Garden in Botanic Gardens (pull out larger photograph)

(p.47)

Workers Dwelling (p.52) and (p.55)

Lyttelton (the Port for Christchurch) (pull out larger

photograph) (p.59)

Sumner (pull out smaller photograph) (p. 66)

Scott Statue (p.71)

New Brighton (pull out smaller photograph) (p.73)

Public Hospital and Grounds (pull out larger photograph) (p.77)



Places; Population, City and Suburbs (118,270); Public Parks and Reserves; Past Chairmen, Mayors

and Town Clerks; Persons Entitled to Vote; Privately Owned Parks; Parks controlled by Boards;

Public Libraries; Rateable Buildings (22,184); Rateable Value; Staff; Statement of Public Debt;

Statutory Meetings; Stores and Warehouses (2,421); Superannuation Fund; Underground

conveniences (male and female – the doors to all the w.c’s are fitted with penny-in-the-slot locks);

Visit of United States Navy; Utilities controlled by the Council.




CCC/ARC/101/7


Yearbook

1926-1927

Condition




cover.

*Photo on page 16 torn

in two

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923




(10,580 acres ,with 243 miles of streets), Authorised Loans;









to 31 March 1926 was 1,285).

Cab Fares; Canterbury Museum; Cemeteries (3 public cemeteries –Buckley’s Road- all plots sold, and

Canal Reserve-a portion of this Cemetery is set aside for soldiers, for whom free plots are provided -

Bromley, the other in Milton Street); Chief Cities Population Count; Christchurch Fire Board; City

Members of House of Representatives; City Enlarged; City Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners;

City Water Supply (the City is served by a High Pressure Water Supply derived from 16 artesian

wells…..10 at the foot of Cashmere Hills, 3 at Sydenham and 3 at St Albans); Concert Hall Proposed;

Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices.


18,462 loads of refuse, including 714 loads of fish, 5,275 loads of clinker and 700 loads of tins;

Drainage (118 miles of sewers and 22 miles of storm water sewers laid).




Fees payable for Licenses; Freehold Land; Gas Supply; Halswell Quarry; Housing; Inhabited Dwellings

(19,963); Latitude (43˚ 31’ 48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13” East); Left Parcel Offices; Licensed

Public Buildings and their seating capacity; Loans Authorised; Loans to Build; Mayor, Councillors and


Victoria Square and Supreme Court Buildings (pull out larger

photograph) (p.9)

Interior of Council Chamber (pull out larger photograph)

(p.17)*

Public Office New Municipal Building (p. 19)

Traffic Inspector’s Department (pull out smaller photograph)

(p.24)

Cathedral Square, Christchurch (pull out larger photograph)

(p.31)

Hereford Street Bridge (p.33)

Victoria Lake, Hagley Park (p. 37)

Entrance to Botanical Gardens (includes Moorhouse Statue) (p.

45)

Winter Garden Botanical Gardens (p. 49)

Lyttelton (pull out larger photograph) (p.51)


The Tea House – Kennedy’s Bush (pull out smaller photograph)

(p.67)

Cashel Street Bridge of Remembrance in background (pull out

smaller photograph) (p.75)

Scott Statue (p.77)


High Street (pull out smaller photograph) (p.85)




Places; New Municipal Offices; New Stables and Yard, Moorhouse Avenue; Population, City and

Suburbs (118,408); Public Parks and Reserves; Past Chairmen, Mayors and Town Clerks; Persons

Entitled to Vote; Privately Owned Parks; Parks controlled by Boards; Public Libraries; Rateable

Buildings (19,598); Rateable Value; Staff; Statement of Public Debt; Statutory Meetings; Stores and

Warehouses (2,423); Superannuation Fund; Underground conveniences (male and female – the

doors to all the w.c’s are fitted with penny-in-the-slot locks); Visit of HMS Delhi and Adelaide and

French Sloop “Cassiope”; Utilities controlled by the Council.




CCC/ARC/101/8


Yearbook

1927-1928

Condition


condition with printed

design back and front

inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923




(10,580 acres ,with 244 miles of streets), Authorised Loans; Avon River








swim lanes, 6 Roman rings, 2 springboards and 4 diving platforms); Bealey Avenue-Rule of the

Road; Building Permits (number issued to 31 March 1927 was 1,324).

Cab Fares; Camping Ground (Lincoln Road); Canterbury Museum; Cemeteries (3 public cemeteries –

Buckley’s Road- all plots sold, and Canal Reserve-a portion of this Cemetery is set aside for soldiers,

for whom free plots are provided - Bromley, the other in Milton Street); Chief Cities Population

Count; Children’s Playgrounds; Christchurch Fire Board; City Members of House of Representatives;

City Enlarged; City Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners; City Water Supply (the City is served by a

High Pressure Water Supply derived from 23 artesian wells…..17 at the foot of Cashmere Hills, 3 at

Sydenham and 3 at St Albans); Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices.


20,134 loads of refuse, including 5,564 loads of clinker and 530 loads of tins; Drainage (118 miles of

sewers and 22 miles of storm water sewers laid).




Fees payable for Licenses; Fitzgerald Avenue-Rule of the Road; Freehold Land; Gas Supply; Halswell

Quarry; Health Week; Housing; Inhabited Dwellings (20,617); Ladies’ Rest Room; Latitude (43˚ 31’

48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13” East); Left Parcel Offices; Licensed Public Buildings and their


Cathedral Square (pull out larger photograph) (p.9)

City Abattoirs, Sockburn (pull out smaller photograph) (p.17)

Swimming Pool, Municipal Baths (pull out smaller photograph)

(p.25)

Port Lyttelton (pull out larger photograph) (p.33)

Waterworks Pumping Plant (p.41)

Scott Statue (p. 53)

Aerial view of Christchurch (pull out smaller photograph) (p.61)

The Rose Garden (p.69)

Municipal Offices, Manchester Street (p.77)

Cashel Street looking West (pull out smaller photograph) (p.85)

Plan of Parking Places (pull out smaller photograph) (p.109)



seating capacity; Loans Authorised; Loans to Build; Mayor, Councillors and Officers (telephone

numbers and addresses); Members of the Legislative Council; Motor Car Parking Places; Motor

Omnibuses; Motor Van Fares; New Municipal Offices; New Stables and Yard, Moorhouse Avenue;

Population, City and Suburbs (121,780); Public Parks and Reserves; Past Chairmen, Mayors and Town

Clerks; Persons Entitled to Vote; Privately Owned Parks; Parks controlled by Boards; Public Libraries;

Rateable Buildings (23,616); Rateable Value; Staff; Statement of Public Debt; Statutory Meetings;

Stock Routes; Stores and Warehouses (2,806); Superannuation Fund; Technical College; Town

Planning; Traffic; Underground conveniences (male and female – the doors to all the w.c’s are fitted

with penny-in-the-slot locks); Value of Buildings Last 10 years; Vehicles Remaining in Streets; Utilities





CCC/ARC/101/9


Yearbook (marbled

front and back inside

cover)

1928-1929

Condition




cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923



Abattoirs; Advances to Ratepayers; Annual Elections, etc; Area of the City (10,580 acres ,with 246

miles of streets), Authorised Loans; Avon River









to 31 March 1928 was 1,217); Bowling Greens; Building Statistics

Camping Ground (Lincoln Road); Canterbury Museum; Cemeteries (3 public cemeteries –Buckley’s

Road- all plots sold, and Canal Reserve-a portion of this Cemetery is set aside for soldiers, for whom

free plots are provided - Bromley, the other in Milton Street); Chief Cities Population Count;

Children’s Playgrounds; Christchurch Fire Board; City Members of House of Representatives; City

Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners; City Water Supply (the City is served by a High Pressure

Water Supply derived from 27 artesian wells…..21 at the foot of Cashmere Hills, 3 at Sydenham and 3

at St Albans); Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices.


20,426 loads of refuse, including 5,638 loads of clinker and 490 loads of tins; Diamond Jubilee

Celebrations; Drainage (118 miles of sewers and 127 miles of artificial drains laid).

Elections; Electricity Department; Electrical Lighting and Power Rates; Electrical Terms; Electrical


Trams 24,695,645- Buses 800,233); Expenditure and Receipts.

Fares; Fees payable for Licenses; Fitzgerald Avenue-Rule of the Road; Flag Days; Freehold Land; Gas

Supply; Golf Links; Halswell Quarry; Harbour and Hospital Boards; Health Week; Housing; Inhabited

Dwellings (21,118); Latitude (43˚ 31’ 48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13” East); Licensed Public

His Worship the Mayor, Rev J K Archer (p.1)

Interior Provincial Council Chambers (p.8)

New Brighton (beach) (pull out photo) (p.16)

The Rose Garden (Botanic Gardens) (pull out photo) (p. 24)

Cashel Street (looking east) (pull out photo) (p.32)

On the Avon (fold out photo) (p.40)

Bridge of Remembrance (p.48)

Scott Statue (fold out photo) (p.56)

Townend House, Botanic Gardens (fold out photo) (p.64)

Sumner (fold out photo) (p.72)

Victoria Square (tri-fold photo) (p.80)

Aerodrome, Sockburn (fold out photo) (p.96)

Plan of Parking Spaces (fold out photo) (p. 110)





Places; Motor Omnibuses; Motor Van Fares; Municipal Market; Municipal Offices; New Stables and

Yard, Moorhouse Avenue; Population, City and Suburbs (123,140); Public Parks and Reserves; Public

Conveniences; Past Chairmen, Mayors and Town Clerks; Parks controlled by Boards; Public Libraries;

Rateable Buildings (24,172); Rateable Value; Riverbank Improvements; Staff; Statutory Meetings;

Stock Routes; Stores and Warehouses (2,859); Superannuation Fund; Technical College; Tennis

Courts; Town Planning; Traffic; Value of Buildings Last 10 years; Vehicles Remaining in Streets;

Utilities controlled by the Council.




CCC/ARC/101/10


Yearbook

1929-1930

Condition

Two copies in good

condition – one has fold

out photo loose of

Moorhouse Avenue

(p.66) also inside covers

have different designs

one is marbled the

other is a printed

design.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923




miles of streets), Art Gallery; Aviation; Authorised Loans; Avon River









to 31 March 1929 was 1,161); Bowling Greens; Building Statistics







at St Albans); Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices; Crematorium.




Elections; Electricity Department; Electric Tramways (the number of passengers carried during the

year was Trams 24,088,043- Buses 749,695); Expenditure and Receipts.

Fares (Cab, Taxi, Vans etc); Fees payable for Licenses; Flag Days; Freehold Land; Gas Supply; Golf

Links; Hagley Park; Halswell Quarry; Harbour and Hospital Boards; Health Week; Housing; Inhabited

Dwellings (21,610); Latitude (43˚ 31’ 48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13” East); Licensed Public



View of River Avon (fold out photo) (p.2)

Cashel Street, Looking East (fold out photo (p. 10)

Cunningham House, Botanic Gardens (fold out photo) (p.18)

Statue of Captain Robert Falcon Scott (fold out photo) (p.2)

Moorhouse Avenue – Concrete Road (one day’s work) (fold out

photo) (p.34)

The Rosary, Botanic Gardens (fold out photo) (p.42)


Chester Street Fire Station, which it is proposed to convert into

Rest Rooms etc (fold out photo) (p58)

Moorhouse Avenue – concrete road construction (fold out

photo) (p.66)

View of Victoria Square (tri-fold photo) (p.74)

Proposed new Art Gallery (tri-fold photo) (p.82)

New Band Rotunda, Cambridge Terrace (fold out photo) (p.86)

Hot Mix Plant, Moorhouse Avenue Yard (fold out photo) (90)

New Carlton Bridge (fold out photo) (p.98)

Testing New Carlton Bridge, Weight over 100 tons (fold out

photo) (p.106)

Clock Tower and New Majestic theatre, Corner High and

Manchester Streets (fold out photo) (p.114)




Places; Motor Omnibuses; Municipal Offices; New Stables and Yard, Moorhouse Avenue;

Population, City and Suburbs (125,170); Public Parks and Reserves; Past Chairmen, Mayors and Town

Clerks; Native Trees and Shrubs (Riccarton Bush presented to the public by Deans Family); Parks

controlled by Boards; Public Conveniences; Public Holidays; Public Libraries; Pulverisation of City

Refuse (installation of a Lightning Refuse Masticator in East Linwood –Reserve 212 – it is intended to

relieve the City Destructor to a certain degree);Rateable Buildings (24,172); Rateable Value;

Riverbank Improvements; Rule of the Road (Bealey & Fitzgerald); Staff; Statutory Meetings; Stock

Routes; Stores and Warehouses (2,913); Superannuation Fund; Technical College; Tennis Courts;

Town Planning; Traffic; Value of Buildings Last 10 years; Vehicles Remaining in Streets; Utilities





CCC/ARC/101/11


Yearbook

1930-1931

Condition



cream back and front

inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923












swim lanes, 6 Roman rings, 2 springboards and 4 diving platforms); Boundaries of City; Bowling

Greens; Building Permits (number issued to 31 March 1930 was 1,171); Building Statistics







at St Albans); Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices; Crematorium.





year was Trams 23,891,147- Buses 604,590); Expenditure and Receipts.

Fares (Cab, Taxi, Vans etc); Fees payable for Licenses; Flag Days; Freehold Land; Gas Supply; Golf

Links; Grand Organ Municipal Concert Hall (original organ, which was presented to the City after the

International Exhibition in 1906-07 was destroyed when building burnt down in 1917 so contract for

the construction of a new organ was given to Messrs Hill, Norman and Beard Ltd of London in June


Captain Scott Statue (fold out photo) (p.4)

Christchurch from the Air (fold out photo) (p.8)

Provincial Council Chamber (fold out photo) (p.12)

“Edmonds Clock Tower” (p.16)

Municipal Electricity Department’s Showroom and Offices (fold

out photo) (p.34)

Committee Room, Municipal Electricity Department (fold out

photo) (p.36)

On the River Avon (fold out photo) (p.46)

Winter Garden and Rosary, Botanical Gardens (fold out photo)

(p.56)

Townend House, Botanical Gardens (fold out photo) (p.64)

Cashel Street, Looking East (fold out photo) (p.86)

Entrance to Museum (p.102)

City Band Rotunda (fold out photo) (p.104)



1928), Hagley Park; Halswell Quarry; Harbour and Hospital Boards; Health Week; Housing;

Improvements in Victoria Square (installation of Bowker Fountain); Inhabited Dwellings (22,026);

Latitude (43˚ 31’ 48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13” East); Licensed Public Buildings and their

seating capacity; Loans Authorised; Loans to Build; Mayor, Councillors and Officers (telephone

numbers and addresses); Members of the Legislative Council; Motor Car Parking Places; Motor

Omnibuses; Municipal Offices; New Stables and Yard, Moorhouse Avenue; Population, City and

Suburbs (126,040); Public Parks and Reserves; Past Chairmen, Mayors and Town Clerks; Native Trees

and Shrubs (Riccarton Bush presented to the public by Deans Family); Parks controlled by Boards;

Public Conveniences; Public Holidays; Public Libraries; Public Utilities Committee; Pulverisation of

City Refuse (installation of a Lightning Refuse Masticator in East Linwood –Reserve 212 – it is

intended to relieve the City Destructor to a certain degree);Rateable Buildings (24,987); Rateable

Value; Riverbank Improvements; Rule of the Road (Bealey & Fitzgerald); Staff; Statutory Meetings;

Stock Routes; Stores and Warehouses (2,961); Superannuation Fund; Technical College; Tennis

Courts; Town Planning; Traffic; Value of Buildings Last 10 years; Vehicles Remaining in Streets;

Utilities controlled by the Council.




CCC/ARC/101/12


Yearbook

1931-1932

Condition




inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923





Bands, Subsidy to (the Council subsidises bands to give open-air concerts in the Rotundas); Band

Rotunda and Clock Tower (donated by T E Edmonds); Bath Charges; Baths Closed (public holidays);

Baths Tepid (public – opened 14th

May 1908 - is now the finest in Australasia. Water supplied from

an artesian bore is changed daily and is of a delicate blue tint, with a temperature of 80˚ – on 15th

September 1923 an electric heater of 1,200 KW capacity was installed permanently assisting the

exhaust steam heat from the Destructor – baths boasts swim lanes, 6 Roman rings, 2 springboards

and 4 diving platforms); Boundaries of City; Bowling Greens; Building Permits (number issued to 31

March 1931 was 916); Building Statistics

Camping Ground (Lincoln Road); Canterbury Museum; cathedral Square Improvements; Cemeteries

(3 public cemeteries –Buckley’s Road- all plots sold, and Canal Reserve-a portion of this Cemetery is

set aside for soldiers, for whom free plots are provided - Bromley, the other in Milton Street); Chief

Cities Population Count; Children’s Playgrounds; Christchurch Fire Board; City Members of House of

Representatives; City Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners; City Water Supply (the City is served

by a High Pressure Water Supply derived from 27 artesian wells…..21 at the foot of Cashmere Hills, 3

at Sydenham and 3 at St Albans); Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices; Crematorium.





year was Trams 22,253,096 - Buses 507,464); Expenditure and Receipts.

Fares (Cab, Taxi, Vans etc); Fees payable for Licenses; Flag Days; Freehold Land; Gas Supply; Gifts to

the City; Golf Links; Grand Organ Municipal Concert Hall (original organ, which was presented to the

City after the International Exhibition in 1906-07 was destroyed when building burnt down in 1917 so

His Worship the Mayor (Mr D G Sullivan, MP) (p.1)


Townend House – Botanical Gardens (fold out photo) (p.26)

Scene on River Avon (fold out photo) (p.42)

Elmwood Park (fold out photo) (p58)

Winter Garden-Botanical Gardens (fold out photo) (p.60)

Scott Statue (fold out photo) (p.68)

Cashel Street looking East (fold out photo) (p.84)

City Band Rotunda from Oxford Terrace (fold out photo) (p.

102)

The Bowker Fountain (p.104)

View in Cathedral Square (fold out photo) (p.106)

Bridge of Remembrance from Cambridge Terrace (fold out

photo) (p.112)

New Brighton (beach) (fold out photo) (p.120)


Lyttelton (fold out photo) (p.134)



contract for the construction of a new organ was given to Messrs Hill, Norman and Beard Ltd of

London in June 1928), Hagley Park; Halswell Quarry; Harbour and Hospital Boards; Health Week;

Housing; Improvements in Victoria Square (installation of Bowker Fountain); Inhabited Dwellings

(22,289); Latitude (43˚ 31’ 48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13” East); Licensed Public Buildings

and their seating capacity; Loans Authorised; Loans to Build; Mayor, Councillors and Officers

(telephone numbers and addresses); Members of the Legislative Council; Motor Car Parking Places;

Motor Omnibuses; Municipal Offices; New Bridges; New Stables and Yard, Moorhouse Avenue;

Plunket Rooms (conversion of Fire Station in Chester Street); Population, City and Suburbs (127,200);

Public Parks and Reserves; Past Chairmen, Mayors and Town Clerks; Native Trees and Shrubs

(Riccarton Bush presented to the public by Deans Family); Parks controlled by Boards; Public

Conveniences; Public Holidays; Public Libraries; Public Utilities Committee; Pulverisation of City

Refuse (installation of a Lightning Refuse Masticator in East Linwood –Reserve 212 – it is intended to

relieve the City Destructor to a certain degree); Rateable Buildings (25,336); Rateable Value; Rule of

the Road (Bealey & Fitzgerald); Staff; Statutory Meetings; Statue of Captain Cook (donated by M F

Barnett Esq. – sculptor – W T Trethewey); Stock Routes; Stores and Warehouses (3,047);

Superannuation Fund; Technical College; Tennis Courts; Town Planning; Traffic; Value of Buildings

Last 10 years; Vehicles Remaining in Streets; Utilities controlled by the Council.




CCC/ARC/101/13


Yearbook (2 copies)

1932 - 1933

Condition

Two copies in good



inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923














Camping Ground (Lincoln Road); Canterbury Museum; Cathedral Square Improvements (Demolition

of Tramway Shelter and replaced by two new shelters – one each end of Godley Statue); Cemeteries






at Sydenham and 3 at St Albans); Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices; Crematorium.


21,289 loads of refuse, including 5,763 loads of clinker and 520 loads of tins); Drainage (118 miles of



year was Trams 19,473,951 - Buses 405,409); Expenditure and Receipts.



His Worship the Mayor (D G Sullivan Esq MP) (one edition has

the Mayor’s photo glued onto the front inside cover the other

edition has the Mayor & Councillors (fold out photo) (p.4)


Townend House, Botanical Gardens (fold out photo) (p.28)

View of Cathedral Square showing Ladies’ Rest Rooms at Left of

Post Office Clock (tri-fold photo) (p.42)

On the River Avon (fold out photo) (p.48)

Portion of Rose Garden, Linwood Park (tri-fold photo) (p.66)

Winter Garden, Botanical Gardens (fold out photo) (behind

above photo) (p.66)


Elmwood Park (fold out photo) (p.76)

Cashel Street, looking East (fold out photo) (p.88)

City Band Rotunda from Oxford Terrace (fold out photo) (p.104)

Peacock Fountain and Robert McDougall Art Gallery (fold out

photo) (p.104 behind previous photo)

Victoria Square (tri fold photo) (p. 106)

Bridge of Remembrance from Cambridge Terrace (fold out

photo) (p.114)


Lyttelton – the Port of Christchurch (fold out photo) (p.124)






London in June 1928), Hagley Park; Halswell Quarry; Harbour and Hospital Boards; Health Week;

Housing; Inhabited Dwellings (22,372); Latitude (43˚ 31’ 48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13”

East); Licensed Public Buildings and their seating capacity; Loans Authorised; Loans to Build; Mayor,

Councillors and Officers (telephone numbers and addresses); Members of the Legislative Council;

Municipal Offices; New Bridges; New Stables and Yard, Moorhouse Avenue; Plunket Rooms

(conversion of Fire Station in Chester Street); Population, City and Suburbs (128,900); Public Parks

and Reserves; Past Chairmen, Mayors and Town Clerks; Native Trees and Shrubs (Riccarton Bush

presented to the public by Deans Family); Parks controlled by Boards; Public Conveniences; Public

Holidays; Public Libraries; Public Utilities Committee; Pulverisation of City Refuse (installation of a

Lightning Refuse Masticator in East Linwood –Reserve 212 – it is intended to relieve the City

Destructor to a certain degree); Rateable Buildings (25,445); Rateable Value; Rule of the Road

(Bealey & Fitzgerald); Staff; Statue of Captain Cook (donated by M F Barnett Esq. – sculptor – W T

Trethewey); Statutory Meetings; Stock Routes; Stores and Warehouses (3,073); Superannuation

Fund; Technical College; Tennis Courts; Town Planning; Traffic; Value of Buildings Last 10 years;

Vehicles Remaining in Streets; Weir in River Avon (request by Canterbury Rowing Assoc to deepen

river); Women’s Rest Room in Cathedral Square (plans to erect a new 5 storey reinforced concrete

structure);Utilities controlled by the Council.




CCC/ARC/101/14


Yearbook

1933-1934

Condition




inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923





















at Sydenham, 4 at St Albans, 3 at Woolston, and 3 at May’s Road); Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of

Municipal Offices; Crematorium.




Elections; Electricity Department; Electric Tramways (the number of passengers carried on Trams,

trackless trams, and busses during the year was Trams 16,566,351 - Buses 405,409); Expenditure and

Receipts.

His Worship the Mayor (D G Sullivan, Esq MP) (p.1)



View in Cathedral Square (fold out photo) (p.40)

Boating on River Avon (fold out photo) (p.44)

Southern Alps photographed from Cathedral Square, By Infra-

red Process (fold out photo) (p.56)

Springtime, Hagley Park (fold out photo) (p.62)

Part of Rose Garden, Linwood Park (tri-fold photo) (p.64)

Winter Garden, Botanic Gardens (fold out photo) (p.66)


Elmwood Park (fold out photo) (p.70)

Typical Homes, Heaton Street (fold out photo) (p.72)


Carlton Bridge (fold out photo) (p.96)

Edmonds Band Rotunda, Cambridge Terrace (fold out photo)

(p.104)


photo) (p.106)

Statue of Captain James Cook R N (fold out photo) (p.109)

Victoria Square, showing Statue of Captain James Cook (tri-fold

photo) (p.110)

Bridge of Remembrance (fold out photo) (p.114)



New Brighton Beach (fold out photo) (p.132)







London in June 1928), Hagley Park; Halswell Quarry; Harbour and Hospital Boards; Housing;

Inhabited Dwellings (22,474); Latitude (43˚ 31’ 48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13” East); Licensed

Public Buildings and their seating capacity; Loans Authorised; Loans to Build; Mayor, Councillors and

Officers (telephone numbers and addresses); Members of the Legislative Council; Municipal Offices;

New Bridges; New Stables and Yard, Moorhouse Avenue; Plunket Rooms (conversion of Fire Station

in Chester Street); Population, City and Suburbs (129,950); Public Parks and Reserves; Past Chairmen,

Mayors and Town Clerks; Native Trees and Shrubs (Riccarton Bush presented to the public by Deans

Family); Parks controlled by Boards; Public Conveniences; Public Holidays; Public Libraries; Public

Utilities Committee; Pulverisation of City Refuse (installation of a Lightning Refuse Masticator in

East Linwood –Reserve 212 – it is intended to relieve the City Destructor to a certain degree);

Rateable Buildings (25,559); Rateable Value; Rule of the Road (Bealey & Fitzgerald); Sick Benefit

Society (for CCC workers); Staff; Statue of Captain Cook (donated by M F Barnett Esq. – sculptor – W

T Trethewey); Statutory Meetings; Stock Routes; Stores and Warehouses (3,085); Superannuation

Fund; Technical College; Tennis Courts; Town Planning; Traffic; Value of Buildings Last 10 years;

Vehicles Remaining in Streets; Weir in River Avon (request by Canterbury Rowing Assoc to deepen

river); Women’s Rest Room in Cathedral Square (plans to erect a new 5 storey reinforced concrete

structure);Utilities controlled by the Council.




CCC/ARC/101/15


Yearbook

1934-1935

Condition




inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923





















at Sydenham, 4 at St Albans, 3 at Woolston, and 3 at May’s Road); Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of

Municipal Offices; Crematorium.



sewers).


trackless trams, and buses during the year was Trams 17,500,348 - Buses 411,322); Expenditure and

Receipts.

His Worship the Mayor (D G Sullivan, Esq MP) (p.1)


Southern Alps photographed from Cathedral Square, By Infra-

red Process (fold out photo) (p.54)


Part of Rose Garden, Linwood Park (tri fold out photo) (p.62)

Winter Garden, Botanical Gardens (fold out photo) (p.64)


Provincial Council Chambers (fold out photo) (p.104)


(p.106)


photo) (p.108)

Statue of Captain James Cook RN (fold out photo) (p.108 behind

previous photo)


Victoria Square, showing statue of Captain James Cook (tri-fold

photo) (p.114)




New Brighton Beach (fold out photo) (p.136)







London in June 1928), Hagley Park; Halswell Quarry; Harbour and Hospital Boards; Hours of Sunshine

for 1933; Housing; Inhabited Dwellings (22,653); Latitude (43˚ 31’ 48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’

13” East); Licensed Public Buildings and their seating capacity; Loans Authorised; Loans to Build;

Mayor, Councillors and Officers (telephone numbers and addresses); Members of the Legislative

Council; Municipal Offices; New Bridges; New Stables and Yard, Moorhouse Avenue; Plunket Rooms




Holidays; Public Libraries; Public Utilities Committee; Pulverisation of City Refuse (installation of a

Lightning Refuse Masticator in East Linwood –Reserve 212 – it is intended to relieve the City

Destructor to a certain degree); Rateable Buildings (25,755); Rainfall for 1933; Rateable Value; Rule

of the Road (Bealey & Fitzgerald); Sick Benefit Society (for CCC workers); Staff; Statue of Captain

Cook (donated by M F Barnett Esq. – sculptor – W T Trethewey); Statutory Meetings; Stock Routes;

Stores and Warehouses (3,102); Superannuation Fund; Takahe Conveniences; Technical College;

Tennis Courts; Town Planning; Traffic; Value of Buildings Last 10 years; Vehicles Remaining in

Streets; Weir in River Avon (request by Canterbury Rowing Assoc to deepen river); Women’s Rest

Room in Cathedral Square (plans to erect a new 5 storey reinforced concrete structure);Utilities





CCC/ARC/101/16


Yearbook

1935-1936

Condition




inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923





















at Sydenham, 4 at St Albans, 3 at Woolston, and 3 at May’s Road); City Statues; Concert Hall;

Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices; Crematorium.



sewers).



Receipts.

His Worship the Mayor (Hon D G Sullivan) (p.1)


View of Cathedral Square (fold out photo) (p.10)

Victoria Square (tri fold photo) (p.28)

Swimming Pool, Public Baths (bathers) (fold out photo) (p.30)


photos) (p.46)

Southern Alps, approximately 80 miles from Christchurch

(Photographed from Cathedral Square by Infra-Red process)

(fold out photo) (p.60)


Winter Garden, Botanic Gardens (fold out photo) (p.76)


Portion of Rose Garden, Linwood Park (tri fold photo) (p.102)

Lyttelton, the Port of Christchurch (fold out photo) (p.112)



(p.116)

Statue of Captain James Cook RN (p.118)


Bowker Fountain (p.124)


Sumner (tram in foreground) (fold out photo) (p.132)

Carlton Bridge (fold out photo) (p.134)

New Brighton (fold out photo) (p.146)

View in Cambridge Terrace (fold out photo) (p.152)










Lyttelton-The Port of Christchurch; Mayor, Councillors and Officers (telephone numbers and

addresses); Members of the Legislative Council; Municipal Offices; New Bridges; Plunket Rooms




Holidays; Public Libraries; Public Utilities Committee; Rateable Buildings (25,896); Rainfall for 1934;

Rateable Value; Rule of the Road (Bealey & Fitzgerald); Sick Benefit Society (for CCC workers); Staff;

Statutory Meetings; Stock Routes; Stores and Warehouses (3,120); Superannuation Fund; Takahe

Conveniences; Technical College; Tennis Courts; Town Planning; Traffic; Value of Buildings Last 10

years; Vehicles Remaining in Streets; Weir in River Avon (request by Canterbury Rowing Assoc to

deepen river); Women’s Rest Room in Cathedral Square (plans to erect a new 5 storey reinforced

concrete structure);Utilities controlled by the Council; Yards, Depots, etc.




CCC/ARC/101/17


Yearbook

1936-1937

Condition

Two copies in good

condition with printed

designs in back and

front inside cover –

both books are different

designs.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923





















at Sydenham, 4 at St Albans, 3 at Woolston, 3 at May’s Road, 1 Fitzgerald Ave); City Statues; Concert

Hall; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices; Crematorium.



sewers).



Receipts.

His Worship the Mayor – J W Beanland Esq. (p.1)


Godley Plot, Cathedral Square (fold out photo) (p.10)


Southern Alps, Approximately 80 miles from Christchurch

(Photographed from Cathedral Square by Infra-Red Process)

(fold out photo) (p.36)


photo) (p.46)

Scene in Botanical Gardens showing Geographical Map of NZ

(raised out of lake) (fold out photo) (p.54)

Springtime in Hagley Park (fold out photo) (p.68)

Rosary and Winter Garden, Botanic Gardens (fold out photo)

(p.76)


Portion of the rose Garden, Linwood Park (fold out photo)

(P.90)



Edmond’s Band Rotunda (fold out photo) (p.104)



Statue of Captain James Coo RN) (p.112)



View in Cambridge Terrace (fold out photo) (p.122)





CCC/ARC/101/18


Yearbook

1937-1938

Condition

Two copies in good


blue back and front

inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923



Abattoirs; Advances to Ratepayers; Annual Elections, etc; Area of the City (10,580 acres ,with 228.5










March 1937 was 1,163); Building Statistics

Camping Ground (Lincoln Road); Canterbury College; Canterbury Museum; Cathedral Square

Improvements (Demolition of Tramway Shelter and replaced by two new shelters – one each end of

Godley Statue); Cemeteries (3 public cemeteries –Buckley’s Road- all plots sold, and Canal Reserve-a

portion of this Cemetery is set aside for soldiers, for whom free plots are provided - Bromley, the

other in Milton Street); Chief Cities Population Count; Children’s Playgrounds; Christchurch Fire

Board; City Members of House of Representatives; City Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners; City

Water Supply (the City is served by a High Pressure Water Supply derived from 35 artesian wells…..21

at the foot of Cashmere Hills, 3 at Sydenham, 4 at St Albans, 3 at Woolston, 3 at May’s Road, 1

Fitzgerald Ave); City Statues; Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices; Crematorium.



sewers).


Trolley buses, and buses during the year was Trams 18,627,974 - Buses 1,056,705); Expenditure and

Receipts.

His Worship the Mayor – J W Beanland Esq. (fold out photo)

(p.1)



Victoria Square (fold out photo) (p.28)

Southern Alps from Cathedral Square (fold out photo) (p.34)


photo) (p.48)

War Memorial, Cathedral Square (fold out photo) (p.62)


Rosary and Winter Garden, Botanic Gardens (fold out photo)

(p.76)


Aerial View of Halswell Quarry (fold out photo) (p.90)

Portion of Rose Garden, Linwood Park (fold out photo) (p.96)



Provincial Council Chambers (fold out photo) (p.104 behind the

one above)


(p.106)

Captain Cook Statue (p.109)




View of Cambridge Terrace (fold out photo) (p.124)





CCC/ARC/101/19


Yearbook

1938-1939

Condition




inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923











exhaust steam heat from the Destructor however the Destructor was closed down on 14 April 1938

so heating relied fully on the electric heater – baths boasts swim lanes, 6 Roman rings, 2

springboards and 4 diving platforms); Boundaries of City; Bowling Greens; Building Permits (number

issued to 31 March 1938 was 1,069); Building Statistics

Camping Ground (Lincoln Road); Canterbury University College; Canterbury Museum; Cathedral

Square Improvements (Demolition of Tramway Shelter and replaced by two new shelters – one each

end of Godley Statue – November 1937 a Gyratory System of Traffic Control prohibited right-hand

turns to all traffic entering the Square, thus forcing it to go round in a clockwise movement);

Cemeteries (3 public cemeteries –Buckley’s Road- all plots sold, and Canal Reserve-a portion of this

Cemetery is set aside for soldiers, for whom free plots are provided - Bromley, the other in Milton

Street); Chief Cities Population Count; Children’s Playgrounds; Christchurch Fire Board; City

Members of House of Representatives; City Rates; City Sinking Fund Commissioners; City Water

Supply (the City is served by a High Pressure Water Supply derived from 35 artesian wells…..21 at the

foot of Cashmere Hills, 3 at Sydenham, 4 at St Albans, 3 at Woolston, 3 at May’s Road, 1 Fitzgerald

Ave); City Statues; Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices; Crematorium.


18,121 loads of refuse – it was closed down on 14 April 1938 after a decision was made to dispose of

the city’s refuse by the method of controlled tipping); Drainage (118 miles of sewers).

Elections; Electricity Department; Electric Tramways (the combined number of passengers carried on

His Worship the Mayor – R M Macfarlane Esq. (p.1)





photo) (p.48)



Rosary and Winter Garden, Botanic Gardens (tri fold photo)

(p.76)

Colombo Street looking South (fold out photo) (p.82)


Portion of Rose Garden, Linwood Park (tri fold photo) (p.100)


Provincial Council Chambers (fold out photo) (p.108 behind the

previous photo)


(p.110)



Captain Scott Statue (p.118)




Sumner (p.145)



Trams, Trolley buses, and buses during the year was 20,295,852); Expenditure and Receipts.

Fares (Cab and Taxi); Fees payable for Licenses; Flag Days; Freehold Land; Gas Supply; Gifts to the

City; Golf Links; Grand Organ Municipal Concert Hall (original organ, which was presented to the City

after the International Exhibition in 1906-07 was destroyed when building burnt down in 1917 so



for 1937; Housing; Housing for Old Age Pensioners; Inhabited Dwellings (23,804); Latitude (43˚ 31’

48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13” East); Licensed Public Buildings and their seating capacity;

Loans Authorised; Loans to Build; Lyttelton-The Port of Christchurch; Mayor, Councillors and Officers

(telephone numbers and addresses); Members of the Legislative Council; Motor Vehicle Inspection

(introduction of 6 monthly WOF – headlights for power and focus, steering and wheel alignment and

brakes are tested in the hope of reducing accidents – tests take 5 minutes to complete) ; Municipal

Offices; New Bridges; Plunket Rooms (conversion of Fire Station in Chester Street); Population, City

and Suburbs (134,400); Public Parks and Reserves; Past Chairmen, Mayors and Town Clerks; Native

Trees and Shrubs (Riccarton Bush presented to the public by Deans Family); Papanui Memorial Hall;

Parks controlled by Boards; Public Conveniences; Public Holidays; Public Libraries; Public Utilities

Committee; Rateable Buildings (26,968); Rainfall for 1937; Rateable Value; Rule of the Road (Bealey

& Fitzgerald); Sick Benefit Society (for CCC workers); Staff; Statutory Meetings; Stock Routes; Stores

and Warehouses (3,164); Superannuation Fund; Takahe Conveniences; Technical College; Tennis

Courts; Town Planning; Traffic Control; Value of Buildings Last 10 years; Vehicles Remaining in



controlled by the Council; Yards, Depots, etc.




CCC/ARC/101/20


Yearbook

1939-1940

Condition

Three copies in

reasonable condition

with plain cream back

and front inside cover.

Recommend scanning

photographs and



collection




April 1903,




Fisherton, on 1st





April 1921 by

Spreydon, 1st



April 1923











exhaust steam heat from the Destructor however the Destructor was closed down on 14 April 1938

so heating relied fully on the electric heater – baths boasts swim lanes, 6 Roman rings, 2

springboards and 4 diving platforms); Boundaries of City; Bowling Greens; Building Permits (number

issued to 31 March 1939 was 1,179); Building Statistics

Camping Ground (Lincoln Road); Canterbury University College; Canterbury Museum; Cathedral

Square Improvements (Demolition of Tramway Shelter and replaced by two new shelters – one each

end of Godley Statue – November 1937 a Gyratory System of Traffic Control prohibited right-hand

turns to all traffic entering the Square, thus forcing it to go round in a clockwise movement);

Cemeteries (3 public cemeteries –Buckley’s Road- all plots sold, and Canal Reserve-a portion of this

Cemetery is set aside for soldiers, for whom free plots are provided - Bromley, the other in Milton

Street – recently acquired land in Ruru Road for a fourth cemetery – August 1916 the Council agreed

to assume the care and control of the Roman Catholic and Dissenters’ Portion of Barbadoes Street

Cemetery which has been closed since 31 March 1885); Centennial Tepid Baths (site selected in

Oxford Terrace facing North on to the river); Chief Cities Population Count; Children’s Playgrounds;

Christchurch Fire Board; City Members of House of Representatives; City Rates; City Sinking Fund

Commissioners; City Water Supply (the City is served by a High Pressure Water Supply derived from

35 artesian wells…..21 at the foot of Cashmere Hills, 3 at Sydenham, 4 at St Albans, 3 at Woolston, 3

at May’s Road, 1 Fitzgerald Ave); City Statues; Concert Hall; Committees; Cost of Municipal Offices;

Crematorium.


His Worship the Mayor – R M Macfarlane, Esq. MP (p.1)





photo) (p.48)



Rosary and Winter Garden, Botanic Gardens (tri fold photo)

(p.80)

Colombo Street looking South (fold out photo) (p.82)


Portion of Rose Garden, Linwood Park (fold out photo) (p.102)




(p.112)




Bridge of Remembrance (fold out photo) (124)



Sumner (p.147)



18,121 loads of refuse – it was closed down on 14 April 1938 after a decision was made to dispose of

the city’s refuse by the method of controlled tipping); Drainage (118 miles of sewers).

Elections; Electricity Department; Electric Tramways (the combined number of passengers carried on

Trams, Trolley buses, and buses during the year was 20,038,502); Expenditure and Receipts.

Fares (Cab and Taxi, Horse and Motor)); Fees payable for Licenses; Flag Days; Freehold Land; Gas

Supply; Gifts to the City; Golf Links; Grand Organ Municipal Concert Hall (original organ, which was

presented to the City after the International Exhibition in 1906-07 was destroyed when building burnt

down in 1917 so contract for the construction of a new organ was given to Messrs Hill, Norman and

Beard Ltd of London in June 1928), Hagley Park; Halswell Quarry; Harbour and Hospital Boards;

Hours of Sunshine for 1938; Housing; Housing for Old Age Pensioners; Inhabited Dwellings (24,138);

Latitude (43˚ 31’ 48’ South) and Longitude (172˚ 37’ 13” East); Licensed Public Buildings and their

seating capacity; Loans Authorised; Loans to Build; Lyttelton-The Port of Christchurch; Mayor,

Councillors and Officers (telephone numbers and addresses); Members of the Legislative Council;

Motor Vehicle Inspection (introduction of 6 monthly WOF – headlights for power and focus, steering

and wheel alignment and brakes are tested in the hope of reducing accidents – tests take 5 minutes

to complete); Municipal Aerodrome, Harewood; Municipal Offices; New Bridges; Plunket Rooms



presented to the public by Deans Family); Papanui Memorial Hall; Parks controlled by Boards; Public

Conveniences; Public Holidays; Public Libraries; Public Utilities Committee; Rateable Buildings

(27,316); Rainfall for 1938; Rateable Value; Refuse Control (refuse being dumped in old shingle pits

at Spreydon and Opawa and in a hollow in sand hills in Bromley); Rule of the Road (Bealey &

Fitzgerald); Sick Benefit Society (for CCC workers); Staff; Statutory Meetings; Stock Routes; Stores

and Warehouses (3,178); Superannuation Fund; Takahe Conveniences; Technical College; Tennis

Courts; Town Planning; Traffic Control; Value of Buildings Last 10 years; Vehicles Remaining in



controlled by the Council; Yards, Depots, etc.

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