Edwin Blake

Edwin Blake (1830 – 18 March 1914) was a 19th-century Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Canterbury, New Zealand.

[4] One of the sections was adjacent to Lake Brunner, at the time still part of the route to the West Coast.

This was soon superseded by a more direct route built by Walter Blake that followed the Taramakau River.

Edwin Blake was then commissioned to widen the track through the Otira Valley down to the Taipo River.

[2] In the 1881 election, Blake contested the Kumara electorate, but was beaten by 700 to 624 votes by Richard Seddon.