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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Clubs

Clubs.

The Christchurch Club, which is situated at the corner of Latimer Square and Worcester Street, was the first to be established in Christchurch. The club was founded in 1856, and a portion of the present two-storey building was erected in 1859. The clubhouse has since been considerably enlarged; on the ground floor there are the reception-room, dining-room, committeeroom, private dining-room, card and smoking-rooms, besides billiard-room, library, and lavatories. The dining-room has accommodation for from forty to fifty members, and in the billiard-room there are two full-sized Alcock's billiard-tables. The club is a residential one, with twenty-five bedrooms, bathrooms, etc., on the first floor.

Mr. Sidney Chapman, Steward of the Christchurch Club, was born in 1869 in Oxford, and was educated at St. Giles' school in that city. Before coming to the Colony, Mr. Chapman served for three or four years in the Army, and was otherwise engaged in club service at Oxford. Arriving in Lyttelton in 1891 per s.s. “Ruapehu,” he became head-walter at the Christchurch Club, and after four years was promoted as above. Mr. Chapman was married in 1890 to a daughter of Mr. C. Kempster, and has two sons and two daughters.

The Canterbury Club, which is situated at the corner of Worcester Street West and Cambridge Terrace, was established in 1872. The principal rooms have frontage to Cambridge Terrace and command a pretty outlook over the river Avon. The premises are centrally situated and well kept in every respect. The rooms throughout are lofty and well ventilated. On the ground floor is a handsome smoking-room, an excellent dining-room capable of accommodating some sixty people, and a strangers' and committee room. At the end of the long corridor is the manager's office. The club also possesses a very large and welllighted billiard-room, considered to be one of the best in the Colony. On the first floor are a number of bedrooms, together with card and sitting rooms. The club is a residential one. The officers for 1901–2 were:—Hon. J. T. Peacock (chairman), Messrs A. Appleby, A. Carrick, Dr. J. C. Palmer, S. B. Fisher, T. D. Condell, and George Harris (committee); Hon. J. T. Peacock and Messrs J. Gould, G. G. Stead, and A. Carrick are the trustees, and Mr. E. E. Daniels is the manager.

Mr. Elles Ebenezer Daniels, Manager of the Canterbury Club, was born in Taranaki and educated in Auckland, being an old Giles' College Boy. For several years Mr. Daniels was employed at the Northern Club. Auckland, and resigned his position of clerk there in order to undertake the management of the Canterbury Club. Mr. Daniels is an enthusiastic cyclist and is captain of the Pioneer Amateur Bicycle and Athletic Club, the oldest cycling and athletic club in the Colony.

Standish and Preece, photo.Mr. E. E. Daniels.

Standish and Preece, photo.
Mr. E. E. Daniels.

The Federal Club, Worcester Street West, Christchurch. Officers for the year 19012: Mr. E. C. Ashley, president; Mr H. N. Martin, honorary treasurer; Messrs William Brice, William Rollitt, George King, F. J. Smith, J. A. Paton, James Moir, Thomas Skelton, committee; Mr. John F. Grierson, secretary. New premises, specially adapted to the club's requirements have been erected in Worcester Street, by Mr. William Pratt. The entrance hall, visitors' room, reading room, billiard room (which has three of Alcock's tables) lavatory, storeroom, and out offices are all on the ground floor, and the kitchen, dining room, cardroom, committee room and another lavatory are upstairs. The club has a membership of 250.

Christchurch Working Men's Club. Officers for 1901–2: Messrs W. H Young (president), B. S. Collier (vicepresident), G. Tombs, C. E. Bird, G. P. Daye (trustees), E. Smith (treasurer), J. M. Thomson (reference librarian), G. Woodrough (circulating librarian), D. Leslie (secretary), and S. Flood (steward). This club was established in 1880 in Gloucester Street, whence it was removed in 1883 to its present freehold site in Oxford Terrace. The buildings are erected chiefly in brick. There is excellent accommodation, including a large billiard room with two tables, reference and circulating libraries page 207 containing nearly 5000 volumes, a large social hall capable of seating 300 persons, a reading-room and bar. The membership of the club is from 500 to 600. The club has lately purchased the adjoining section of land and laid it down in grass.