Christchurch from Dyers Pass 2 The purpose of this website is to share with you our first impressions of New Zealand, our reasons for hoping to emigrate there with our family, some of the skills, experience and services which we have to offer, and our aspirations for our new future - along with some observations about life generally, and New Zealand in particular. Christchurch, by the way, is an incredibly beautiful and clean garden city; the botanic gardens contain some of the most wonderful trees we've ever seen.