The Eyre Country – sourced from Hawkins’ history of the Waimakariri District. The book’s a great yarn all-round on the old district.   The country away to the west of Kaiapoi was scarcely glanced at by Torlesse and Boys during their survey of the northern agricultural districts in 1849-50, for, on their earlier preliminary traverse, they had found it poor and inhospit able, and they were more concerned with land