Quill Lane – Named in 1978. First appears in street directories in 1981.
A small amount of information from the library website for a street that I wasn’t aware existed.
Found a huge amount of information on Papers Past. I googled Quill Lane and Quakestudies had information from archaeological report after the earthquakes about a company called Quill Morris Ltd a cordial company that was on Dundas St. Papers Past had the company connected to several hotels but it went into voluntary liquidation in 1934. In 1957 the company merged with another company and became Quill Morris Cowles. I then checked ancestry website for the surname Quill and Morris with no luck.
I then found a facebook page for bottle collectors and apparently bottles from this company are collectable. Someone on this page mentioned the name of John Thomson Sutton as owner of the company. Couldn’t find him on Papers Past but they had the middle name incorrect. Quill, Morris Ltd wine and spirit merchant had seven directors going by Issue of prospectus in 1926. One of them was Charles Dickinson Morris so that explains the Morris in the company name. I have no idea where the Quill name came from. I found a second date of 1929 for the liquidation. The company restarted trading in 1936. John Thomas Sutton had the lease of several hotels including Zetland, Sandridge, Dunsandel, Hanmer and City Hotel. City Hotel is just around the corner of Dundas St.
I didn’t actually walk this lane as it goes from Manchester St to Welles St and at the Manchester St end it goes to the loading area for Smiths City and at the Welles St end there are entrances to a couple of restaurants plus car parks for the restaurants. Still like to know where the Quill part of the company name came from.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 
Quill, Morris & Co Ltd was registered as a private company in December 1916 to carry on business as wine and spirit merchants and in doing so they took over the wine & spirit part of Fletcher, Humphreys & Co and also Roper & Co Ltd. They were based in Cathedral Square and Chancery Lane.
Thomas Richard Quill was a keen tennis player and in 1909 he played at Wimbledon. He was married to one of George Bonnington’s daughters. Charles Dickinson Morris was the other main business partner and he was heavily involved with the City Council.
Quill died in 1925 and in August 1926 the firm became Quill Morris Ltd.
In October 1929 having just bought out Saunders & Co, they built new premises in Dundas Street and now had aerated waters & cordials to go with their wines & spirits. They employed Phil Kortegast and he remained there until 1936 when he started his own business.
In 1932 Quill Morris Ltd went into voluntary liquidation but still managed to trade their way through the Depression and in 1936 the company was reconstructed as Quill Morris (1936) Ltd.
In 1959 they merged with Cowles & Son Ltd to become Quill Morris Cowles Ltd. (QMC). In the early 1960s they also had a branch at Timaru.
They were taken over by Ballins in 1964.
Quill Morris used the slogan QM – Quality Matters. Later Quill Morris Cowles used the slogan QMC – Quality Must Count.
Their trade mark was a Coronet.
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