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Para Rubber Opened – 12th September 1910
On 12 September 1910, at 175 Manchester Street, the first Para Rubber shop opened. George Waldemar Skjellerup was born in Cobden, Victoria, Australia in 1881. In 1902, just before his 21st birthday, he arrived in New Zealand and began working in Dunedin at a bicycle shop. Within a year, it was another change of scenery …
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The Rose Historic Chapel Got Built – 1910
In 1894, a small group of Catholic nuns, known as the Sisters of Mercy, arrived at Lyttelton from the West Coast of the South Island. It had been deemed safer to for them to travel by sea as bad weather could have made the cross country journey unsafe and unpredictable. They were led by Mother …
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Rudyard Kipling’s One Day Visit To Christchurch – 1891
Although he was in the company of a news reporter, famous British author Rudyard Kipling refused to be interviewed during his one day visit to Christchurch in 1891. He was doing a tour (mainly of the North Island) of New Zealand so that he could write his view on our way of life. He did, …
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Canterbury’s First Full-Time Paid Surgeon – 1909
In 1909, after years of surgeries being performed by brave general practitioners, Sir Hugh Acland became Canterbury’s first full-time paid surgeon. Hugh was the youngest of eleven siblings; his father (John Barton Arundel Acland) first arrived at Lyttelton in 1855 with fellow British lawyer, Charles Tripp. Wishing to be sheep farmers, the completely inexperienced pair …
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