Alpers Place in Hoon Hay – Named after Oscar Thorwald Johan Alpers (1867-1927).Alpers was a teacher, journalist, writer, poet, lawyer and judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. In a 145-acre housing subdivision planned by the housing division of the Ministry of Works. The land was purchased from the Church Property Trustees and the Loughnan estate. In 1968 the street names sub-committee of the council felt that as Halswell was named after a prominent English Queen’s Counsel, it would be appropriate to record the names of judges in street names there. Many of them had been QCs or KCs before appointment to the
Bench.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. There are only 13 houses here and they were all built in 1970s. One house has been demolished and it was next to the walkway that takes you through to Rowley Ave. The street runs from Haslam Crescent and it has a footpath on both sides of the street. A couple of the houses had nice gardens and the houses are typical style for 1970s state houses. Nothing really stood for me on this street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 