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it also received very cordial approval from the Board. Before anything 

 definite was done, however, the railway was extended considerably beyond 

 Broken River and the temporary station was removed, and early in 3 910, 

 on the suggestion of Mr. R. Speight, now Curator of the Canterbury Museum, 

 who was well acquainted with the neighbourhood in question, it was thouuht 



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that it would be better to select an area farther along the railway, nearer 

 the Cass River and railway-station. Accordingly, in 1910, the district was 

 visited by Mr. C. H. Opie (member of the Board of Governors), Mr. G. H. 

 Mason (Registrar), Mr. R. Speight, and myself, and we were fortunate in 

 finding an area on the Grasmeie Run, another educational reserve in the 

 possession of the College, quite close to the Cass Station, which included 



