Province of Canterbury, New ZealandProvince of Canterbury, New Zealand

Lists the rural sections of Canterbury from No. 1 to No. 5534, the acreage of the properties, and the surnames of the people to whom they were sold by the Canterbury Association and the Canterbury Provincial Government. In colonial Canterbury town sections were in Lyttelton and the original settlement of Christchurch. Christchurch was then bounded by the north, east and south belts (Bealey, Fitzgerald and Moorhouse avenues). On the west, it was bounded by the roads which circle Hagley Park. Property outside these boundaries were 'rural sections' and the List of sections deals with these properties.