Leslie Hills Drive – Named after Leslie Hills, the historic Rutherford family homestead in the Culverden/Hanmer area. The Rutherford family was involved in the Amuri Corporation which developed the Amuri Business Park. First appears in street directories in 1991.
A small amount of information from the library website. This street only has businesses on it. I searched Papers Past and Ancestry to see if I could find out why the property in North Canterbury was named Leslie Hills but couldn’t find anything. More than one person in the Rutherford family had Leslie as a middle name so I suspect that it is a family name. My research wasn’t helped by family trees on Ancestry website having incorrect information. I do wish that people researching their family trees would check their information before linking. The original owner of Leslie Hills was George Rutherford and he was born in Jedburgh.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 