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Geraldine

Canterbury, New Zealand
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Geraldine is a town within the Canterbury Region in the South Island of New Zealand. It is ready 140 km south of Christchurch, and inland from Timaru, that is 35 km to the south. There is evidence of Maori travels through the Geraldine location and artifacts and carvings have been located in the nearby regions of Beautiful Valley, Gapes Valley and Kakahu. The place became a part of the continuous Canterbury Purchase or Kemp's Deed whereby over thirteen thousand acres changed into purchased by using Henry Tacy Kemp on behalf of the Crown from Ngai Tahu for £2,000 in 1848. Following the purchase the colonial surveyor Charles Torlesse visited the location in 1849. However, it wasn't until 1854 whilst Thomas Cass, the Chief Surveyor for the Canterbury vicinity and Guise Brittan, Commissioner for Crown Lands, proposed a metropolis website at Talbot Forest. Following this Samuel

Hewlings underneath the employment of the government as a surveyor, built a bark hut had been the possibly destiny web site of a metropolis would be. In truth, a Totara tree planted to commemorate the beginning of Hewlings daughter together with his spouse Nga Hei, still stands today opposite the police station in which his nearby bark hut as soon as stood. While Hewlings was certainly the primary to man or woman to stay in Geraldine, his residence turned into now not permanent and Alfred Cox and William du Moulin abet on the alternative facet of the river in Raukapuka had been the metropolis’s first everlasting residence.

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