Editing Banks Peninsula (section)

===1877–2006 – Akaroa County and Banks Peninsula District=== 

[[Akaroa County]], which covered most of Banks Peninsula was one of the [[counties of New Zealand]] established in 1877. The council first met in [[Akaroa]] courthouse on 4 January 1877.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AKAROA COUNTY COUNCIL. AKAROA MAIL AND BANKS PENINSULA ADVERTISER, VOLUME I, ISSUE 49, 5 JANUARY 1877|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AMBPA18770105.2.9|access-date=30 January 2022|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=5 January 1877|title=AKAROA COUNTY COUNCIL. AKAROA MAIL AND BANKS PENINSULA ADVERTISER|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AMBPA18770105.2.9|access-date=30 January 2022|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}}</ref> In 1880 new offices were opened at [[Duvauchelle]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=10 February 1880|title=AKAROA RAILWAY. AKAROA MAIL AND BANKS PENINSULA ADVERTISER|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AMBPA18800210.2.14|access-date=30 January 2022|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}}</ref> An area around Lyttelton was separated off in 1902 to form Mount Herbert County.<ref>{{Cite web|date=16 April 2025 |title=Mount Herbert County Council (1902–1989) |url=https://archives.canterburystories.nz/agents/corporate_entities/337 |access-date=30 January 2022|website=Counties Archive Space}}</ref> Counties were abolished in 1989 and most of the peninsula then came within the [[Banks Peninsula District]], which was itself abolished in 2006.