THE CANTERBURY PLAINS.
The following description of the great grain-growing district of the colony, which appeared in the New Zealand Times, and which is supposed to be written by one of the members of the Assembly who proceeded south to witness the opening of the last section of the great main trunk line of railway between Christchurch and Dunedin, w ill be read with interest: —One of the few objects in the ride across the plainsto break the monotony is the Industrial Sehoo* yat Burnham, where the crooked ways of the juvenile larrikins of Canterbury are straightened out. Near this spot the “Transit of Venus” expedition established their station, in the belief that the stony plain afforded a good, steady foundation for their instruments. A very slight wobble in a lens makes a difference when the radius of sight is a hundred millions of miles long. It was a cloudy day, though, at Burnham when Venus transited, and the steadiness of the stony plains was
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Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 3, 21 September 1878, Page 2
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165THE CANTERBURY PLAINS. Waipawa Mail, Volume I, Issue 3, 21 September 1878, Page 2
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