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The Early Canterbury Runs: Containing the First, Second and Third (new) Series

Conclusion

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Conclusion

Nearly forty years ago my friend T. D. Burnett and I agreed to try to collect and publish a complete record of the Canterbury runs. Burnett took the stations up the Waitaki, those in the Mackenzie Country and near it, and I took the rest of the province.

It has been a long business but now I have finished my part. Burnett published some of his runs in the Timaru Herald and told me he had others in hand; but he was a busy man. Besides supervising Mt. Cook Station and several other properties, he became involved in public affairs. He went into Parliament and never found time to finish the book he meant to write before he died in 1941. No one now can ever do it as well as he would have done. Most of his profound knowledge of the Mackenzie Country died with him. But William Vance of the Timaru Herald has taken up the burden, and is writing the history of all the runs in the whole Mackenzie County.

This will only leave the stations on the Waitaki to do, and E. C. Studholme and I have been working on them for some time. If we ever finish them I shall endeavour to get them published, either as a separate pamphlet or as an appendix to Vance's book.

The Waitaki Stations are:
Elephant Hill, N.Z.R. 23, afterwards 321, 412.Hakataramea Downs.
Station Peak, N.Z.R. 55, 56, 57, afterwards 486, 487, 488.Rocky Point (afterwards part of Hakataramea).
Hakataramea, 158, 197, 197a, 198, 213, 265, 265a, 334, 441, 691.Waitangi, 208, 311, 360.
Te Akaterawa, 261, 295.
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Vance's runs are:
Black Forest.The Mistake (now Godley Peaks).
Haldon.Glenmore.
Gray's Hills.Balmoral.
Grampians.Irishman Creek.
Whalesback.The Wolds.
Rollesby.Simon's Pass.
Albury.Braemar.
Opawa.The Tasman Islands.
Cannington.Mt. Cook Station.
Mt. Nessing.Birch Hill (south).
Three Springs.Glentanner.
Ashwick.Rhoborough Downs.
Sherwood Downs.Ben Ohau.
Tekapo.Lake Ohau and Glenlyon (partly in Otago).
Richmond.
Lillybank.

So far as I know all the original pastoral runs in Canterbury are thus accounted for in this book. Though there were a few pastoral runs allotted on the West Coast, they were never properly constituted stations, and were across the main range, so I have not included them.

With all the care in the world errors are bound to get into a book of this sort, and I shall be much obliged to anyone who will let me know of any of them. I shall also be grateful for any details about the seven runs on the Waitaki and their owners, which I still hope to do.