Moncrieff Place in the red zone in Burwood – Named after Lieutenant John Robert Moncrieff. Moncrieff and Captain George Hood went missing on 10 January 1928 during the first attempt to cross the Tasman Sea by air in a Ryan Brougham aircraft. Continues the aviation theme of street names in the area. Named in 2004.
A small amount of information from the library website. John Robert Moncrieff was born in Lerwick, Shetland Islands in 1894 and he trained at Wigram. I am really surprised that Wigram hadn’t already used this name for a street. The plane they were flying they had named Aotearoa. Looking at street view for 2007 the houses are huge and very new looking. There was a walkway through to the Horseshoe Lake Reserve from this street and it looked like a really nice street. Sadly it was the street’s position so close to the reserve that meant the land was subject to liquefaction after the earthquakes. Obviously there are no longer any houses here.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 