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 …