A photo from about 1900 shows the William Strachan & Company Victoria Brewery on the corner of Pitt St and Elder St. PHOTO: HOCKEN COLLECTION — UARE TAOKO O HAKENA
The missing waterway apparently provided water for William Strachan’s Victoria Brewery, on the corner of Pitt St and Elder St.
The brewery, which was advertised as "opposite Knox’s [sic] Church", opened in 1857 and in 1923 was taken over by NZ Breweries.
Checks at the Dunedin City Library and Toitu Otago Settler's Museum have so far failed to find maps or written records of the stream’s name.
There is interest by Knox Church in learning the original Maori name, as it is hoped to be able to use it in some way in a church building or feature.
gillian.vine@alliedpress.co.nz
An advertisement for Victoria Brewery in the Otago Daily Times, February 1862. PHOTO: PAPERS PAST
