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The tram line continued operation until 1954, with Cashmere gaining a reputation as one of the country's more well-to-do and refined suburbs in the process. This reputation continues to the present day, with the 2018 census showing that Cashmere has a significantly higher percentage of incomes over NZ$70,000 than the rest of Christchurch city. [2]
Country Glen Lodge 107 Bealey Avenue, St Albans [97] Built 1896, demolished 2012. [63] Media related to Country Glen Lodge at Wikimedia Commons II Cracroft House [98] 151 Cashmere Road, Cashmere Cob cottage built 1854–1856. Gifted to the Girl Guides Association in 1958. Demolished 2012. Media related to Cracroft House, Christchurch at ...
Cashmere is a hygroscopic fiber, absorbing and releasing water from the air based on the surrounding environment. This helps regulate the body in both warm and cool temperatures. [1] A number of countries produce cashmere and have improved processing techniques over the years, but China and Mongolia are two of the leading producers as of 2019.
The Christchurch radio market is the second-largest in New Zealand, with 511,700 listeners aged 10 and over. The three largest stations in Christchurch by market share are Newstalk ZB, More FM, and The Breeze. [355] As with other New Zealand radio markets, most radio stations in Christchurch are centralcast out of Auckland.
Ngaio Marsh House, the home of Dame Ngaio Marsh for most her life, is a heritage property in Valley Road in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere.It serves as a museum to Dame Ngaio, one of New Zealand's most famous cultural figures and one of the original Queens of Crime from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, and Margery Allingham.
The settlement of Governors Bay is located on Banks Peninsula near the head of Lyttelton Harbour. [3] [better source needed] It is connected via Governors Bay Road to Lyttelton, [4] via Dyers Pass Road over the Port Hills to the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere, and via Main Road to the south side of the harbour basin and Banks Peninsula.
Cracroft Caverns, also known as the Cashmere Caverns, are a series of large chambers in the hill of the Cashmere suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.. Constructed secretly during the Second World War in response to the Japanese threat, they were intended to house operational headquarters in the event of attack.
The Huntsbury hillside was originally the site of the Cashmere Sanatorium complex, a tuberculosis hospital which opened in 1914. [6] At the time, best practice tuberculosis treatment consistent of "open air" living, so many patients in the complex lived in "huts", about 9 square metres with permanently open doors and windows, even in winter. [7]