. The official handbook of New Zealand : a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the colony as a whole and on the several provinces ; edited by Julius Vogel . REFERENCE BoadsmaiJU Roads inu>iirse of construifn-^^1^ Beads Surveyed/£:)rse trcu^. _Sorse trachs t/iprogr&ssPrcvuiciaiRoaas. Coiuh ^.UmlMctyi .. -,RxulwavS ux Course ol cciiMrncUoi Railways surveyed, ProvincicJ Bmlways I ,(«. Course of co7isfriLclu>n.]^ovuiA:iaZ limlways surveye<7Provw/xal Bailways proposedWaferRares .... . .. THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO. 93 tended to. On the first day of September,1848, the


. The official handbook of New Zealand : a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the colony as a whole and on the several provinces ; edited by Julius Vogel . REFERENCE BoadsmaiJU Roads inu>iirse of construifn-^^1^ Beads Surveyed/£:)rse trcu^. _Sorse trachs t/iprogr&ssPrcvuiciaiRoaas. Coiuh ^.UmlMctyi .. -,RxulwavS ux Course ol cciiMrncUoi Railways surveyed, ProvincicJ Bmlways I ,(«. Course of co7isfriLclu>n.]^ovuiA:iaZ limlways surveye<7Provw/xal Bailways proposedWaferRares .... . .. THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO. 93 tended to. On the first day of September,1848, the first public building, to be usedas a church and school, Avas opened, theaverage attendance of scholars being forty,although on some days it reached was under the auspices of the Associa-tion and connected with the Free few months later, the first newspaper,the Otago News, was published, and inMay, 1849, a public library was in close succession, building so-cieties were started, and a Mechanics Insti-. tute, which has now grown into the flourish-ing and highly-valued Athenaeum, wdth itslibrary, reading, and class


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