Louisson Place in the suburb of Opawa, Christchurch

Louisson Place in Opawa and it isn’t on the library website which is surprising as I suspect that it is an older street..
A short street that runs from Opawa Rd to Hansen Park. THe Heathcote River one side and Opawa school the other side. A few flats that look like social housing between the school and the park. It also has the Opawa Children’s Library which had a sign saying that it is a temporary adult library.

It is highly likely that this street was named after Charles Louisson who was mayor of Christchurch several times. He was also on the Legislative Council.So much information on Papers Past and it was fascinating. His obituary dated 21/04/1924 gives a lot of information and is worth reading.He was born in London. educated at Gravesend. Went to Australia in 1856 aged 14 and worked on stock stations plus did gold mining. Came to NZ to join his brother Alfred and they had various ventures in Canterbury, West Coast and Marlborough. Another brother Cecil joined them and they took over a brewery. Huge number of letters to the editor from prohibition group protesting about him. When William Booth visited NZ in 1899 the prohibitions objected to Charles Louisson being the person to welcome Booth to Christchurch even though Louisson was the mayor.
He was also one of the founding members of the Jewish congregation in Christchurch and trustee of the Synagogue at the time of his death.His family are all buried at the Linwood cemetery which I believe has a separate Jewish section.