Recreation - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1869-1871

By: Popular Amusement and Entertainment Association

Reference: MS-1782

Description: The association was formed in Christchurch in 1869, and organised sports meetings, concerts, etc Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms and printed matter (23 cm; green morocco)

Date: 1998

By: Beadle, Peter, 1933-; Colour Digital Printing Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-CRICKET-1998-01

Description: Shows a reproduction of a painting by Peter Beadle, showing a cricket match in a rural setting. Chickens, a dog, and a duck with ducklings add to the atmosphere in the foreground. Dated by date of accession. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Digital colour print, 320 x 615 mm.

Date: 1989 - 7 Apr 1998

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001; Bradley, Michelle, 1958-

Reference: OHColl-0463

Description: 1989 interview is difficult to hear. A sketch abstract of the interview and additional notes are bound in to the abstract. Avice Hill was born in Christchurch in 1906. Gives an account of her family history with an emphasis on the immigration of her maternal grandparents, the Crosbie family, in 1863. Avice Hill reads from notes about the Crosbie family's voyage to New Zealand on the ship `Brothers pride'. Discusses the daughters, Agnes and Jane, who were tailors and milliners and operated a successful business in Christchurch in the 1870s. Notes that Agnes Crosbie became Agnes Francis on her marriage but that her husband died and she continued to live with her sister Jane Crosbie. Describes their home on the corner of Armagh and Durham Streets and later on a large property in Withells Road. Discusses the purchase of a piece of land on Memorial Avenue which has been donated to the Christchurch City Council and is now the Avice Hill Reserve. Recalls growing up at Withells Road under the care of her aunties Agnes and Jane and travelling by trap and tram to attend St Margarets school in Cranmer Square. Discusses her passion for bug breeding as a child and later attending Canterbury College (university) to study science. Talks about getting her Master of Sciences degree and writing a thesis on the dobsonfly, an insect that lives in rivers. Describes working on insect pest eradication at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson in the 1930s. Recalls meeting distant relative Frank Hill again while visiting a mutual relative Maud McDowell. Describes their courtship, getting married, a trip to Great Britain and starting to grow and sell herbs at the Memorial Avenue property. Describes the growth of the business, involvement of Frank Hill and establishment of the house and herb gardens. Recalls the formation of the Canterbury Herb Society by Avice Hill, Peggy Fitts and one other person. Notes that the Withells Road land is now Crosbie Park. Talks in some detail about the Avice Hill Reserve. Accompanying material - Information on the Crosbie family; information on the property at Memorial Ave; information on the replanting of the enclosed herb garden as a scented garden; article `Bugs, lavenders and ginger cats' by Avice Hill, article `Queen of herbs' in NZ gardener Apr 1998. These are bound into the abstract. Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 7 Apr 1998

From: Interviews with Avice Hill

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001

Reference: OHInt-0463/02

Description: Quantity: 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1765. Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 1989

From: Interviews with Avice Hill

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001

Reference: OHInt-0463/01

Description: Quantity: 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Brief summary and notes are bound in with abstract of second interview. Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 1965

By: Pictorial Publications Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-TOURISM-Christchurch-1965-01

Description: A fun map of Christchurch showing figures engaged in recreational activities and the main roads of the city. From left, features marked include: Cave Rock, Sumner Golf Course, Lancaster Park, Railway Station, Addingston Show grounds, Hagley Park, Art Gallery and Museum, Canterbury College, Cathedral Square, Christ's College, Magnetic Observatory, Botanical Gardens, Centenial Pool, Wilding Park, Kerr's Reach and rowing clubs, South New Brighton Park, Avondale Golf Course, Shirley Golf Course, English Park, St Alban's Park, Rawhiti Domain, Rugby Park, Christchurch Archery Club. Around the borders are inset photographs of Hagley Park, the Sign of the Takahe, River Avon in the Botanical Gardens, Sumner, Band rotunda on the River Avon, Cathedral Square. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet 283 x 440 mm.

Date: 2007

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0004100

Description: This is an advertisement that was run in the Christchurch Press by the Christchurch Water Rights Trust showing a mightily disconcerted little cartoon family out with their picnic baskets against a photographic representation of a dried-up river bed. The advertisement is to encourage people to vote for local body candidates who are taking the Christchurch water situation seriously. Refers to potential problems because of intensive land use by farmers resulting in a falling water table. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1950

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Bigwood, Kenneth Valentine, 1920-1992

Reference: 1/2-034514-F

Description: Ice skating on Lake Ida in Canterbury. Photograph taken in 1950 by K V Bigwood for National Publicity Studios. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.