Story: South Canterbury region
Usually towns were founded by either government or private enterprise. Timaru was established by both. In 1853 the Rhodes brothers surveyed a town behind Caroline Bay; three years later the government surveyed its own town south of the Rhodes’s settlement. As is evident in this 1864 plan, North Street divided the towns. Eventually the two settlements merged.
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Christchurch Regional Office, Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga
Reference: CAAR, CH 287, CP189, ICPW 1211/1864
Permission of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga (Christchurch Regional Office) must be obtained before any re-use of this material.
