Harling Avenue in the suburb of Hillmorton, Christchurch

Harling Ave in Hillmorton – Named after Carl Harling (1841?- 1926). Harling was a master at Christ’s College 1888- 1904. One of the streets in the area formed on land owned by Christ’s College. First appears in street directories in 1972.A small amount of information from the library website. It would have been leasehold land but now possibly freehold as owners in this area were fairly recently given the chance to buy the freehold. Found information about Carl in a Christ College newsletter as well as on a history page of Victoria University. Carl was from Hanover in Germany and educated in Bremen. He arrived in Nelson on the ship Magna Bona in 1868. He was a teacher of modern languages at Nelson College for over 12 years. He started teaching at Christ College in 1889. He also taught gymnastics at both Christ College and Nelson College and is credited with introducing the teaching of gymnastics to New Zealand. He married Eleanor Caroline Catherine Heine known as Ellen in Nelson on 13th January 1870. Carl was very involved with the German Church in Christchurch until he left Christchurch in 1904 to go back to the Nelson area. Carl and Ellen are buried in the Upper Moutere Lutheran Cemetery. Ellen was born 15/09/1852 and died 1914. Carl was born 07/06/1841 and died 02/05/1926. The records for this cemetery are in German. They are buried in a plot for the Heine family as there are several of the Heine family buried here. Carl’s full name was possibly Johann Christian Heinrich Carl Harling. I couldn’t find any children for Karl and Ellen. The houses here were mostly from the 1970s and typical for that era. A couple of the houses had interesting gardens. One had a scarecrow in the garden but I mucked up my photo of it. This same garden had vegetables where most people have shrubs and flowers. My favourite garden on this street had a giant duck / goose peering over the fence. The duck / goose had to be between 8 to 10 feet tall and I couldn’t believe my eyes. Then I just laughed as it made my evening. My friends tell me that it is Mother Goose in this garden.