Sign of the Kiwi Cafe
Stone Arts and Crafts rest house and café at a hilltop pass, once home to a disputed toll gate.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Sign of the Kiwi on Christchurch's Port Hills follows Harry Ell, the politician who dreamed of a road along the summit, and the fight that broke out over the gate he put across it in the nineteen twenties. It also turns to his wife Ada and the tearooms she took over in nineteen twenty. Best heard on the verandah, near the old stone pillar.
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