Editing Sumner, New Zealand (section)

==Toponymy==

Captain Thomas named the settlement for Bishop [[John Bird Sumner]], one of the leading members of the Canterbury Association.<ref name="Amodeo1">{{cite book |editor1-last=Amodeo |editor1-first=Colin |title=Rescue, The Sumner community and its lifeboat service |date=1998 |publisher=Sumner Lifeboat Institute Incorporated |location=Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand |isbn=0-473-05164-8 |page=1}}</ref>

The [[Ngāi Tahu]] name for the beach between Cave Rock (''Tuawera'') and Scarborough is ''Matuku Tako Tako''.<ref name="Andersen">{{cite web |last1=Andersen |first1=Johnannes C. |title=Map of Banks Peninsula showing principal surviving European and Maori place-names 1927 |url=https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Maps/536127.asp |publisher=Govt. Print |access-date=22 December 2020 |location=Wellington |date=1927 |archive-date=16 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416071803/https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Maps/536127.asp |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Amodeo1" /> This name has been used by both the state primary school and the city libraries.

A. W. Reed gives the [[Māori language|Māori]] name for {{clarify|date=December 2020 |reason=J F Menzies give the location as between Redcliffs and Mt. Pleasant and a different translation |text=the area}} is ''Ohikaparuparu'' ("o" means place of; "hika" means rubbing, kindling, or planting; "paruparu" means dirt, deeply laden, or a preparation of fermented cockles).<ref name="Reed">{{cite book|last=Reed|first=A. W.|title=Place Names of New Zealand |year=2010|publisher=Raupo|location=Rosedale, North Shore|isbn=978-0-14-320410-7|page = 379|editor=Peter Dowling}}</ref> However, J. F Menzies indicates this name is associated with a settlement on the shores of the estuary between Redcliffs and Mt Pleasant and prefers an alternative translation of "''The place where sticks were rubbed together to make a fire with which to cook cockles in preparation for a journey''".<ref name="Menzies">{{cite web |last1=Menzies |first1=J. F. |title=Sumner |url=https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/DigitalCollection/Publications/1940s/1941Sumner/PDF/69264-021.pdf |website=Digital Collection, Christchurch City Libraries |access-date=20 December 2020 |page=34 |date=1941 |archive-date=16 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416083047/https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/DigitalCollection/Publications/1940s/1941Sumner/PDF/69264-021.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Andersen places this name on the beach at the mouth of the estuary, near Shag Rock (''Rapanui'').<ref name="Andersen" /> [[James Cowan (New Zealand writer)|James Cowan]], retelling [[Maui Pomare|Sir Maui Pomare]], indicates this name applies to the estuary shallows and means "''fall in the mud''".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cowan |first1=James |title=LEGENDS OF THE MAORI |date=1987 |publisher=Southern Reprints |location=Wellington |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Pom01Lege-t1-body2-d6-d3.html |access-date=22 December 2020 |chapter=EPISODE III. THE LAUNCHING OF THE SPELL |quote=And the dwellers in the riverbank pa, Pohoareare, men, women and children, launched their canoes and paddled down the slow Opaawaho, across the shallows of Ohikaparuparu, or, literally, “Fall-in-the-mud,” and so out past the black, tooth-like rock of Rapanui to the firm beach sands, where Sumner township stands to-day. |archive-date=13 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113162620/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Pom01Lege-t1-body2-d6-d3.html |url-status=live }}</ref>