Lois Place in Richmond- formerly Bassett Place. Named after Lois Gwendoline Curtis, née Bassett, (1904- 1985). The Bassetts were early settlers in the Richmond area. Bassett Place first appears in street directories in 1933. Re-named Lois Place on 1 September 1948 when 120 streets were re-named.
A small amount of information from the library website. Not a lot of information from Papers Past and the entries were most death notices. I suspect that this street was originally named after Lois’s father Samuel East Kennedy Bassett who lived at 255 River Rd and this street ran off River Rd. Samuel died in 1914. Lois married Geoffrey Curtis in February 1928 but the marriage didn’t last long as Geoffrey remarried in 1938. Lois was a nurse and ended up living in the North Island. There were several Bassett families in the area and they all seemed to be related. This street is now in the red zone and I couldn’t get google maps to show me how the street looked before the earthquakes.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 