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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

[German Bay]

German Bay is in the county of Akaroa, and is about seventeen miles from Little River, with which, as with Pigeon Bay, it is connected by a coach service. Akaroa is only a mile or two distant. There are about 220 inhabitasts at German Bay, which has a public school, a dairy factory, a local post office, and a telephone service. Cheesemaking is carried on as an industry, and the district generally is devoted to dairying and the cultivation of grass seed. The country around is hilly, and through there a few large farms, most of the holdings are of medium size. The Germans, about six in number, who came out with the French settlers, formed a settlement in what is now known as German Bay, and thus the place received its name. German Bay
German Bay.

German Bay.

is fifty-two miles from Christchurch, with which it has daily mail communication.

German Bay School. This school is built on a section of two acres of land, and was opened in 1878. It consists of one room, with accommodation for fifty-two children. The number on the roll is about forty, and the average attendance twenty-six. All the standards are taught in the school, which is under the charge of Miss C. V. Anderson.

The German Bay Co-Operative Dairy Factory was established in 1893, and has steadily prospered since its inauguration. There are at present fifteen suppliers, and the number is gradually increasing. Cheese is the only article manufactured as yet, but butter will soon be produced. Upwards of eighty tons of cheese are produced annually, and at the Dunedin Agricultural Show of 1901, the factory's cheese gained first prize. The factory building, which is of wood, with an iron roof, stands upon three-quarters of an acre of land. A piggery, connected with the factory, occupies four acres, and produces about 300 pigs annually.

German Bay Co-operative Dairy Factory.

German Bay Co-operative Dairy Factory.

Mr. Thomas Rae, Manager of the German Bay Dairy Factory, was born in Invercargill, in 1873, and educated at the Bluff public school. He left school at an early age, and was immediately appointed assistant manager of the Inchclutha Dairy Factory. On the resigntion of the manager, he succeeded him and had charge of the factory for twelve months. he was afterwards appointed manager of the Kaihiku Factory in the Clutha district, where he remained till he received his present appointment in August, 1901. Mr. Rae was married, in 1899, to Miss page 630 Moreton, daughter of Mr. S. Moreton, of Christchurch, and has one daughter.

Mr. T. Rae.

Mr. T. Rae.