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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Burnham

Burnham is a farming district, eighteen miles south-west from Christchurch. Its first settlers were Messrs W. P. Cross, John McIlroy, and Joseph Nichol, who arrived between 1866 and 1874. Burnham is devoted chiefly to sheep farming and crop growing, though the land is not so suitable for grain as that in the neighbouring district of Selwyn. At the railway station, which is near the centre of the district, there is a public telegraph and post office department, and there is daily mail communication with Christchurch. The public buildings consist of the Burnham Industrial School, a public school, with an average attendance of about fourteen, and a church. Burnham stands 197 feet above the level of the sea.