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New Brighton Joined The Greater Christchurch – 1st April 1941
On 1st April 1941, New Brighton joined the Greater Christchurch and came under the care of the C.C.C. William Free was just 10 years old when he arrived in Lyttelton on the ‘Cressy’, the Canterbury Association’s fourth ship. Ten or so days earlier, William Guise Brittan had arrived on the ‘Randolph’ and took his post …
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New Zealand’s First Beer On Tap – 1940
In 1940, the Carlton Hotel on Carlton Corner is the first pub in New Zealand to have beer on tap, followed by the first beer garden in 1947 and the first drive-thru bottle shop in 1954. Alfred Money, already a colourful Canterbury character, built the first Carlton Hotel. It’s rumoured that he got the name …
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New Zealand’s First Escalator – 1939
In 1939, Lesley Miller moved his successful fabric and fashion business into a specially built five story building on Tuam Street. Just fifteen years before, what would become the Millers Department Store had begun in Greymouth. Two years later, Lesley uprooted his family and business and made the move to Christchurch. It would be a …
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Hillary Chooses Canterbury For First Climb – 1939
Painfully shy, and extremely uncoordinated, it was the love of a great adventure that pushed the 20 year old Edmund Percival Hillary up Canterbury’s Mount Ollivier (pictured in 2014) – in what would become his first major climb. The year was 1939. Born in Auckland on 20th July 1919, it was a school trip to …
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