Background
Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Irish born John Robert Godley were the guiding force within the Canterbury Association. They had organised this off-shoot of the New Zealand Company and settlement in this English enclave was planned for an area now part of Wairarapa in the North Island. The inaugural meeting of the Canterbury Association was held at 41 Charing Cross, London on 27 March 1848 where a resolution was passed: "that the name of the proposed settlement be "Canterbury" and the name of the chief town be "Christchurch."
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