Nikau Place – formerly Matai Terrace. Matai Terrace first appears in street directories in 1939. Re-named Nikau Place because of confusion for the postal authorities with Matai Street. Residents had been asked by the Riccarton Borough Council to suggest a name. One of them, Betty Crawford (later Hutchins), an employee of the Dept of Lands & Survey, and her husband, Bryan, had recently returned from holiday in Nelson. They had admired the stands of nikau palms near the beginning of the Heaphy Track. Betty Crawford also suggested the name because of the street’s proximity to Riccarton Bush and also because many local streets are named after native birds and trees. She was delighted when the council agreed with her suggestion. Nikau Place first appears in street directories in 1968.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website and I can’t see that I can add anything here. A small street that runs off Matai Street West. Large houses with a couple of obvious modern houses. There were other houses that I couldn’t tell if they were the originals or rebuilt to look exactly the same. No photos here. Not a nikau palm in sight.
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