LINWOOD BOROUGH COUNCIL 18A5
Stage 1. There is a plaque on the side of the old Linwood Borough Council building. The building was also used as a Library from 1909 To 199B and an Art Centre from 1997
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Stage 2. The cache a camo plastic bottle can be found at:
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Note: the area can be very busy so you may need to wait for an opportunity to approach GZ and you will understand why when you are there.
LINWOOD.(Approx 1903)
In one respect the borough of Linwood, which adjoins Christchurch on the east, is unique. It has a population of 7000 inhabitants, and does not contain a licensed house. There is no other borough in the colony, of the same size, in such a position, But not only is the Borough Council without license fees, for it has to meet its expenses without the aid of revenue from reserves, from which some boroughs derive nearly as much as they do from rates. Linwood is, to a large extent, a residential borough, where many people whose vocations call them to the city have erected pretty cottages, close to the centre of business, yet far from its incessant noise and turmoil. Three miles of tramways run through the borough; one line on Ferry Road, leading to Sumner, and the other lines, on Stanmore Road and Worcester Street, going to New Brighton. Linwood, therefore, is within easy distance of the two favourite seaside holiday resorts. There are eighteen miles of streets in the borough. Some of the principal thoroughfares are being widened to meet the increasing demands of traffic, and £1000 has been set apart for acquiring land, shifting fences, and meeting other expenses in connection with the work. Channelling and kerbing, also, have been taken in hand by the Borough Council. For water the residents depend on artesian wells.
THE LINWOOD BOROUGH COUNCIL. Members for 1902; Mr. H. Pearce, J.P. mayor; and Messrs H. J. Otley, J. R. Brunt, W. H. Young, John Jamieson, C. H. Wagstaff W. H. Seed, M. S. Brown, Joseph Cleworth, M. Robertson, W. H. Denton, Andrew Schumacher, and C. Dixon, councillors. Mr. James Anderson is town clerk and borough surveyor. The borough of Linwood comprises an area of 650 acres, and was incorporated in February, 1893. For eleven year previous to that it existed as a town board district. It is rated on the unimproved value system. Its unimproved value is £16,251, and its capital value, £516,070. There is a general rate of 41/2d on the unimproved value; a charitable aid rate of 1-10th of a penny on the capital value; a Waimakariri River Board rate of 3-32 parts of a penny on the unimproved value; a Christchurch sewage area rate of 3/4d on the capital value; and a Christchurch drainage rural area rate of 5/8 parts of a penny (unimproved value); besides Id in the pound for a special loan for public works. The revenue from rates for the year ending March 31st, 1902, was £5,682, and the total income £8,816; while the total expenditure was £10,835. The council chambers, which are situated at the corner of Stanmore Road and Worcester Street, consist of a one-storey wooden building, originally erected in 18A4 by the Linwood Town Board, which was the local governing body prior to the incorporation of the borough.
Linwood was one of the independent boroughs that in 1903 became part of Christchurch City. Linwood Avenue was the line of a planned canal between the estuary and the Avon River, but this was never built.
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