Moorhouse Statue Unveiled – 22nd December 1885
On 22 December 1885, the statue to honour the service of the late William Sefton Moorhouse was unveiled in the Christchurch Botanical Gardens. He had been Canterbury’s second Superintendent and served in this role twice – first in 1858 to 1862 and again in 1866 to 1868. He was further honoured in 1903 when the …
