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"The hunters cleared large areas of mataī and tōtara forest by fire and by about 1450 the moa had been killed off."
http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/ti-kouka-whenua/tribal-history/
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Captain James Cook first sights the Banks Peninsula https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Captain-James-Cook.jpg
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Results of inter-tribal fighting and introduced European diseses
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John Robert Godley and Edward Gibbon Wakely meet to plan the Canterbury settlement "Wakefield believed that colonisation of countries like New Zealand could be organised in such a way that towns could be planned before settlers arrived."
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Canterbury’s growing wealth and prosperity during the boom years of 1857-64 had a big effect on the city. More banks opened Christchurch branches (Bank of New South Wales in 1861, Bank of New Zealand in 1862, and the Bank of Australasia in 1864).
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First church - later dedicated as St Michael and All Angels in 1859.
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In 1862 Christchurch was made a municipal district, and John Hall elected the first chairman of the Municipal Council
