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Villa Maria College, Christchurch, New Zealand was opened on 18 February 1918 with 14 pupils. It was founded by the Sisters of Mercy and served as a parish school when boys were admitted in 1921. From 1941 the school reverted to being a girl's college. Villa Maria College is a day school but it also had boarders between 1935 and 1979. In 1981, the college was integrated into the New Zealand state school system under the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975 but its proprietors remain the Sisters of Mercy (through the Sisters of Mercy Trust Board).HousesVilla Maria College has six houses:McAuley (yellow)Brodie (orange)Claver (purple)Grace (blue)Ennis (green)Mercy (red)HonourIn the 2001 Birthday Honours, former principal Sister Pauline Margaret O'Regan was made a Distinguished Companion of the Order of New Zealand.Sources Villa Maria College golden jubilee, 1918–1968 Christchurch, 1968. Mary Declan Burke RSM, Mercy through the years : the centennial history of the Sisters of Mercy, Christchurch Diocese, 1878–1978, Sisters of Mercy Trust Board, Christchurch, 1978. Michael O'Meeghan S.M., Held firm by faith : a history of the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, 1840–1987, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, Christchurch, 1988. Villa Maria College, seventy-five years, 1918–1993, Villa Maria College, Christchurch, 1993. Michael King, God's farthest outpost : a history of Catholics in New Zealand, Viking, Auckland 1997.

The University of Canterbury had three founding Professors: Charles Cook, Mathematics, St John's Cambridge; Alexander Bickerton, Chemistry and Physics, School of Mining, London; and John Macmillan Brown, Balliol College, Oxford. Founded in 1873, it is New Zealand's second-oldest university. It operates its main campus in the suburb of Ilam in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. It offers degrees in Arts, Commerce, Education (physical education), Engineering, Fine Arts, Forestry, Health Sciences, Law, Music, Social Work, Speech and Language Therapy, Science, Sports Coaching and Teaching.CampusThe University has a main campus of 76 hectares at Ilam, a suburb of Christchurch: about 5 km from the centre of the city. Adjacent to the main campus stands the University's College of Education, with its own sports-fields and grounds. The University maintains five libraries, with the Central Library housed in the tallest building on campus, the 11-storey James Hight building.The University's College of Education maintains additional small campuses in Nelson, Tauranga and Timaru, and "teaching centres" in Greymouth, New Plymouth, Rotorua and Timaru. The University has staff in regional information offices in Nelson, Timaru, and Auckland.

Marian College, Christchurch was founded in 1982 with the merging of two Catholic secondary schools for girls, St Mary’s College and McKillop College located in Shirley . Both schools provided boarding and day facilities.

Dunedin Hospital is the main public hospital in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is the largest hospital south of Christchurch and serves as the major hospital for the Otago and Southland regions with a potential catchment radius of roughly 300 kilometres, and a population of around 300,000. Patients are transferred or sent to this tertiary level care hospital from smaller secondary care hospitals across Otago and Southland including Dunstan Hospital in Clyde, Lakes District Hospital in Queenstown and Oamaru, Gore and Invercargill hospitals.The hospital is operated by the Southern District Health Board, formed by the amalgamation of the Otago District Health Board and Southland District Health Board. It is located in the central business district of Dunedin close to the university, lying between Great King Street, Hanover Street, Cumberland Street and Frederick Street.It is a 388-bed tertiary hospital and is affiliated with the University of Otago. There are approximately 200 specialist consultants. Total employees number about 3,100.HistoryThe original hospital was built at The Octagon in 1851, and moved to the site of the present hospital in 1865.

The Court Theatre is a professional theatre company based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1971 and located in the Christchurch Arts Centre from 1976 until the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. It opened new premises in Addington in December 2011, and its artistic director is currently Ross Gumbley.

Christ's College, Christchurch is an independent, Anglican, secondary, day and boarding school for boys, located in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand.

Previously this historic venue operated as a restaurant and function centre. Today the building awaits restoration after being damaged in the February 2011 Christchurch Earthquakes, however the Iris Lawn provides a prefect garden wedding setting. The 5.5 hectares of gardens, remain one of Christchurch's best loved wedding venues. The Mona Vale Iris Lawn is ideal for ceremonies with a marquee set for the reception. This is one of the most pictuesque gardens for wedding photography. Backdrops of the Avon River, bridges, established trees, rolling lawns and flower beds provide beautiful romantic settings. Gardens and landscaped lawns gently rolling down to the Avon River feature significant plantings of large exotic or Northern Hemisphere trees, a Rose garden and 100-year-old Fernery as well as herbaceous perennials and beds of annuals. The Iris Lawn marquee, provides an option for company picnics and christmas functions.

Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti is a state secondary school originally located in the city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand. The 2011 Christchurch earthquake displaced the school and the closely associated primary school Discovery 1 to Aidanfield. In 2013, UPT will move to Ilam, and it hopes to be back in the central city by 2015. UPT and Discovery 1 are subject to a merger proposal by the Ministry of Education.HistoryIt was established in 2003 by the Christchurch-based Learning Discovery Trust, which had earlier set up the primary Discovery 1 School, and is one of just eleven schools running under the "Designated Special Character" criteria of the Education Act 1989, Section 156: "...The special character of schools established under this section is not specified in the Act, and parents may propose any desirable special character as long as no other local school is already delivering an education reflecting the same special character...". This special character element is similar in some respects to the charter school system in the United States.The school started with just 40 students (the "foundation forty"), but now has a roll of around 400 students, aged from 12 to 18 years of age.

Cromwell Racecourse Aerodrome is a small airport 1 Nautical Mile to the west of Cromwell township in Central Otago on the South Island of New Zealand. The aerodrome is located on the boundary of the Cromwell Racecourse which is used for horse racing and adjacent to Cromwell Hospital.

The Timeball Station in Lyttelton, New Zealand, was one of only five in the world known to be still in working order. This rare piece of maritime history, cared for by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT) had been fabulously restored. Already damaged by an earthquake centred under Darfield in Canterbury on Saturday 4 September 2010, a large earthquake on Tuesday 22 February caused significant damage to this historic building. On 4 March 2010 the NZHPT announced that the building would be dismantled. While work was underway to dismantle the building, earthquakes on Monday 13 June 2011 caused the collapse of the Timeball Station's tower.

Dunedin Railway Station in New Zealand's South Island, designed by George Troup, is the city's fourth station. It earned its architect the nickname of "Gingerbread George".Early rail in DunedinDunedin was linked to Christchurch by rail in 1878, with a link south to Invercargill completed the following year, and the first railway workshops were opened at Hillside in South Dunedin in 1875. Early plans were for a grand main station on Cumberland Street, but these did not get further than the laying of a foundation, and a simple temporary weatherboard station was built next to the site in 1884. It took close to 20 years for government funding to be allocated, and planning only really commenced as the 19th century was drawing to a close.The logistics of constructing what was at the time New Zealand's busiest railway station took three years before construction began in 1903. Dunedin required a station for a wide range of activities: it was a commercial and industrial centre, close to gold and coalfields, with a hinterland that was dependent on livestock and forestry for its economy.ConstructionIn an eclectic, revived Flemish renaissance style, (Renaissance Revival architecture), the station is constructed of dark basalt from Kokonga in the Strath-Taieri with lighter Oamaru stone facings, giving it the distinctive light and dark pattern common to many of the grander buildings of Dunedin and Christchurch. Pink granite was used for a series of supporting pillars which line a colonnade at the front. The roof was tiled in terracotta shingles from Marseilles surmounted by copper-domed cupolas. The southern end is dominated by the 37-metre clocktower visible from much of central Dunedin.