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Workers’ Educational Association Formed – 20th January 1915
On 20th January 1915, the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) was formed in Christchurch, based on the educational model being used in Australia. Very soon after, this form of community teaching was being used all over New Zealand. The WEA had first begun in England in 1903. Eveline Willett Cunningham was born to very wealthy parents …
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Canterbury Ties With England’s First Maori Fighter Pilot – 1915
Seventy seven years after Captain William Barnard Rhodes stocked Canterbury with its first hoof stock and fifty eight years after William Sefton Moorhouse became Canterbury’s second Superintendent; their fighter pilot grandson and nephew was flying wounded during WWI. He had just bombed a Belgium railway junction but had been badly wounded by ground gunfire. He …
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First Cross Country Flight Landed In Christchurch – 6th March 1914
On 6th March 1914, New Zealand’s first cross country flight landed in Christchurch. James William Humphrey Scotland was born in Auckland in 1891. After attending Kings College, he finished his education in England. It was here that he fell in love with aviation. He was the second New Zealander to get his pilot licence. Upon …
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Canterbury’s 6th Hanging Took Place – 13th December 1913
It wasn’t until morning’s first light that the fate of Mrs. Rosana Lilley could be fully understood. Upon discovering her body via candlelight, just 30 yards from their farmhouse, her husband John Allan Lilley had concluded that she had just collapsed and passed away suddenly. But as the police and a doctor arrived the following …
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