500N Too true. and most of that is still there. Not many people in the UK would know it I guess, but Christchurch was laid out by the early settlers in the UK before they set sail! How's that for forward thinking! The result, even now, is a city which is about as English as you can get. The River Avon and most of the parks were planted with English Oak and Elm trees, and the Avon even has punts. Christ College, to which you refer, is a dead ringer for an English Public School, with similar aims and ideals.
Huey, I don't believe that to be true, but the same amount of money received from the sale of your average home in the UK would by you more in most parts of NZ. inner city areas excepted.