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Old Library
Old Library

Okains bay, day three on our way back to Chirstchurch after our two night stay in Akaroa to get away from the repair/paint on our house. May 24, 2012.

Opened in May 1860, this Library was the first public Library on Banks Peninsula. It was part of Henry Torlesse's work, as Vicar, to provide an alternative to the drunkenness and other lawless activities that prevailed in Okains Bay in the early days of its settlement by Europeans.
Land was purchased from John Fluerty, an early farmer, and with the help of Arthur Tucson, 220 books were collected within a year and another 500 on order from England.
In latter years, the regular visits of the Country Library Service van provided the eager readers of Okains Bay with the latest thrillers and other reading material
Both internally and externally, like so many of the building in the Bay, the Library looks much as it did when serving its community in former times.
Taken from: www.okainsbaymuseum.co.nz/other/places_to_visit/places_to...

Okains bay is situated on the north side of Banks Peninsula 80 minutes from Christchurch and 20 minutes from Akaroa.

Settled in the 1840's by whalers, farmers and timber-millers it still has many early cottages, historic homesteads and public buildings.
Banks Peninsula is situated in about the middle of the east coast of the South Island on the margin of the Canterbury Plains. It is approximately 450 sq. miles in area and its highest point is Herbert Peak, 3,014 ft. It comprises two extinct volcanoes which were active less than half a million years ago. Their craters have subsequently been enlarged to many times their original size by stream erosion; they were then invaded by the sea during the postglacial world-wide rise in sea level beginning about 15,000 years ago. They now form the harbours of Lyttelton and Akaroa. Originally Banks Peninsula was an island, but it became tied to the Canterbury Plains at some late stage in geological history when the growing alluvial plain reached its base.
Taken from and more info: www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/banks-peninsula/1

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Taken on: May 24, 2012
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