Cute little spot. The Council acquired this land in two parts - one in 1994 and the other in 1996. The Reserve is named after the developer and previous owner (who owned the land from White Street through to Ashley Street).
Situtated near Kings Street, on Kingsbury Ave. Named by John Kingsbury Fraser after his mother, Ruby Jane (nee Kingsbury) Fraser. This road was formed when Mr Fraser subdivided his land, & the street name ‘Fraser’ was already in use. He owned the land from West Belt though to White Street.
This land was hobby farm land before it was subdivided for housing.
Rangiora started in 1852 as a sawmilling town based around timber for buildings & fuel. It would become the administrative & commercial centre for a large area of farms & orchards. Pre-colonial days there was an 18,000 acre swamp East & West of Rangiora. The Eyre & Cust River would form from the draining of the swamps in 1860 by Arthur Dudley Dobson as part of roads connecting Christchurch & Rangiora. It became an official borough on 14 May 1878.
The highest official temperature ever recorded in New Zealand was 42.4 °C (108.3 °F) at Rangiora on 7 February 1973.
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Coordinates on the desktop may give the appearance that this cache is on someone's property. It is not.
No room for swaps.
Please bring your own pen.
Beware onlooking neighbours :)
Please tuck it back out of sight, Thankyou.