Akaroa County

{{Short description|Former county of New Zealand}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox Former Subdivision

| conventional_long_name = Akaroa County

| common_name = Akaroa County

| subdivision = County

| nation = New Zealand

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| year_start = 1876

| event_end =

| year_end = 1989

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| capital = Duvauchelle

| stat_area1 = 440.48

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| today = Christchurch City Council

| footnotes =

| image_map_caption = Akaroa County in 1981

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Akaroa County was one of the counties of New Zealand in the South Island. The council first met in Akaroa court house on 4 January 1877.{{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=2022-01-30|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}}{{Cite web|date=5 Jan 1877|title=AKAROA COUNTY COUNCIL. AKAROA MAIL AND BANKS PENINSULA ADVERTISER|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AMBPA18770105.2.9|access-date=2022-01-30|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}} In 1880 new offices were opened at Duvauchelle.{{Cite web|date=10 Feb 1880|title=AKAROA RAILWAY. AKAROA MAIL AND BANKS PENINSULA ADVERTISER|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AMBPA18800210.2.14|access-date=2022-01-30|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz}} It became part of Banks Peninsula District in 1989.{{Cite web|date=Nov 2021|title=Newsletter|url=http://www.akaroacivictrust.co.nz/fastpage/downloads/newsletter.pdf|website=Akaroa Civic Trust}}