Aranoni Track in the suburb of Clifton, Christchurch

Aranoni Track in Clifton Bay / Clifton Hill. Nothing on the library website and it is a track rather than a street but the library has included other tracks on it’s website. It starts at Nayland St and finishes at Brownlee Park. There are 13 houses and two date from 1910 and two from 1920s and the others from 1980s and 1990s. It is impossible to see most of the houses here and I suspect that the garages at the bottom of the track on Nayland St belong to the houses. I don’t know the meaning of Aranoni and as there is a street with the name Aranoni in Wellington I am guessing that it is a Maori word. A quick google didn’t come up with anything. In the case of Aranoni Track it will be named after a property called Aranoni that was owned by the New Zealand artist Cranleigh Harper Barton who lived here from about 1930 until his death in 1975. He would rent it out whenever he was overseas which was fairly frequent. He did a long stint in England in the 1920s. He frequently had exhibitions of his work at his studio Aranoni which was described as being next to Mr Waller’s house. In 1934 there was a letter to the editor about the water supply on Aranoni Track asking if it was the source of illnesses in the Sumner area. It is a steep wee walk especially on a warm day but there are some great views of Sumner.