Mulgans Track in the suburb of Clifton, Christchurch

Mulgans Track in Clifton Bay / Clifton Hill. Nothing on the library website but it is a track rather than a street but the library does have other such tracks on it’s website. This track runs from Kinsey Tce to the Main Road and in early days was mentioned as being in Redcliffs. There are two properties here from 1940s and one from 1960s. Papers Past had a section for sale in 1943 and there was a house for sale in 1945. In 1918 someone obviously wanted a name change but the council reply was that they didn’t have the power to change the name. In 1915 there was mention of the track being a private right of way and that the council gave consent for this in 1911. In 1945 there seemed to be a lot of complaints and one was about drainage. The other complaints were about the state of the track and how difficult it was to walk. They wanted the council to upgrade the track. The council reply was that they have explained to the residents of the track many times that it is a private right of way that goes through Mr Mulgan’s subdivision and it is up to the residents to maintain the track and pay for this. I couldn’t find anyone of the surname living in the area but there was a family with that surname living in Christchurch from about 1905 to 1915. Edward Mulgan was a school inspector and he moved to the Wellington area. His son Alan eventually moved to Auckland. Another son went to the UK to live and died at Oxford. This was a family that moved frequently and had a Cashmere address when living in Christchurch but they possibly bought land to subdivide. In 1920 there was a request for the person who was stealing the grocery parcels from the cart to return the parcels. Because of the steep track I thought it was possible that there was a cart on rails for taking goods up the track.