S. Augustine, under the name of Christ Church. But the circumstantial evidence in favour of its being called after Christ Church, Oxford, is very strong. The foundation of the Canterbury Association was largely a Christ Church, Oxford, movement. Mr. Godley was a Christ Church man, and naturally drew round him many of his old College friends. Moreover, the plan of the Canterbury Association included a Cathedral and a College in the centre of the capital city, the two to be closely associated in one enclosure (Cathedral Square), evidently modelled on the same lines as Christ Church, Oxford. “The House,” as Christ Church is commonly called, besides being numerically the largest College in Oxford, is unique in possessing a cathedral within its gates, the smallest in England, founded in the eighth century by Saint Frideswide. The college was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and in 1546, Henry VIII. established the composite foundation under which the church of Saint Frideswide became both the Cathedral of the diocese and the College Chapel. Taken together, these points seem to afford strong presumptive evidence of the Oxford sponsorship.
Shortly after his arrival at Port Cooper, Captain Thomas sent for Mr. Edward Jollie to join him. The two men had met in Otago in 1846, where they had been engaged in surveying fer the Otago Association. They had met again in Nelson in November, 1848, when it was arranged that as soon as a site for the new settlement had been selected, Mr. Jollie should join the survey party. He came out originally as a cadet to the New Zealand Company in 1841, and had had varied colonial experience, including survey work and sheep farming, the latter in conjunction with his brother in Nelson. The following notes of his early work in Canterbury are mainly based on an account contributed by Mr. Jollie to the Jubilee number of the Christchurch “Weekly Press” (December 15, 1900).
