Paikea Place in Somerfield – Named in 1966. First appears in street directories in 1970. Information on date of naming in a letter sent to the City Librarian from the Town Clerk dated 13 December 1966.
A small amount of information from the library website and Paikea is the Maori word for the Southern Humpback Whale. Not many entries on Papers Past but several ads for sections in 1967 and it was described as being part of the Palmside subdivision. I searched for a property with that name in the area with no luck. I possibly visited this street in the 1970s as I recognised a name in Papers Past. It looked like a pleasant tree lined street but it didn’t really stand out for me. Most houses were built in the 1970s but one house dates from 1940. This house was down a long driveway so I couldn’t see what it was like. I was geocaching in the area last week when I walked this street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 