Johnson's Fishponds, the Aquarium at 105 Clarendon Terrace, Opawa
Johnson's Fishponds, the Aquarium at 105 Clarendon Terrace, Opawa
[ca. 1900]
In 1875 Andrew Mensal Johnson (d. 1916) established a fish hatchery and aquarium at Opawa, on the south bank of the Heathcote River, calling it Troutdale Farm. It became popular as a picnic grounds until it closed in the early 1930s. For further information about Johnson and his work see: Men of mark of New Zealand / Alfred Cox. Christchurch : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1886; Birds, beasts & fishes : the first hundred years of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society / R.C. Lamb. Christchurch : North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, 1964; The naturalisation of animals & plants in New Zealand / G.M. Thomson. Cambridge [England] : University Press, 1922
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