1 dic 1919 anni - Tourism declared the 'economic lifeblood' of Akaroa - though wider harbour still driven by primary production

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It was acknowledged as early as the 1920s that visitors were the economic lifeblood of
Akaroa. “The cocksfoot still sometimes waves on the field” the Press declared in 1926
“though it no longer brings wealth; but the township itself now depends largely on the
tourist for its resources.”25 That industry has never played a significant role in Akaroa’s
development has often been celebrated. Andersen wrote in 1927 that “[i]t is a
pleasure ... to know that there is a place of such natural beauty where the ambition is not
to mar it with useful but unbeautiful industries, but rather to preserve such of the natural
beauty that remains, and add to it the parks and gardens of man.”26
But tourism was far from the sole, or even overwhelmingly important, means of support
Akaroa relied on in the first half of the 20th century. Industry continued to have a small place in Akaroa’s development in those years.
Cocksfooting was an important Peninsula industry until the 1930s, but Akaroa continued
to play its part in the industry only as the place where many traders in cocksfoot seed
had their places of business and the place through which some of the seed was
shipped.27
The decline of the cocksfoot industry on the Peninsula began in the 1920s, when
production on flat land elsewhere in Canterbury increased. Although cocksfoot was still
being cut south-east of the town in the early 1950s, by 1945 poorer crops and higher
wages (in a labour-intensive industry) had reduced the contribution the industry made to
the economic well-being of Akaroa

Source: https://ccc.govt.nz/assets/Documents/The-Council/Plans-Strategies-Policies-Bylaws/Plans/district-plan/banks-peninsula/AkaroaHistoricalOverview-part-1.pdf

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