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Simple And Unpretentious – Professor G.S. Sale
“There was a simplicity, a freshness and a raciness about those early times, notwithstanding some discomfort, that made life far more enjoyable then than it is now, or ever will be again. The difference is mainly this, that in those days our life was simple and unpretentious. Now it is for the most part absurdly …
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Difficulties That Colonists Have To Encounter – Georgiana Bowen
“It is ill-suited for any but the young, strong and active. I could make you cry with the recital of the various shifts and difficulties that colonists have to encounter”. Georgiana Bowen (1810 – ? ) ~ 12th March 1851 Georgiana arrived in Canterbury with her husband, her children, Charles, Croisdale, Letitia and her sister-in-law …
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…Done More For Colonization… – John Robert Godley
“I have been an active promoter of the Canterbury Association, and I now stand here to defend it on this ground alone, that is better than the Government. For 12 years….Sir George Grey [the Governor of New Zealand and pictured here in 1861] and his predecessors have had nearly the whole of New Zealand under …
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The Aspirations of Godley’s Time – Sir Charles Bowen
“I know you will be angry with my talking in this way of Canterbury. But if your Lordship were to land, I fear that, while you admired the material progress if the Settlement, you would share the heart-sickness of those who remember the aspirations of Mr [John Robert] Godley’s time and who have learned that …
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