Canberra Place in Redwood and I was very surprised that this street wasn’t on the library website. When I walked the street yesterday my first thought was that the houses had a very 1960ish look about them plus there was a footpath on both sides of the street. I was correct about 1960 as most houses here were built in the 1960s. Papers Past also had several ads for sections being available for sale in the 1960s. The for sale ads had the sections as being in Papanui or occasionally North Papanui. A few death notices and they frequently used Styx as the suburb. Redwood was only used from the late 1970s. In 1962 a sum of £430 was approved for the Canberra Place Reserve for levelling of the ground and providing playground equipment. I couldn’t find out why the name Canberra was used. There didn’t seem to be anything special happening in Canberra at the time and the original owner of the land didn’t have a connection to Canberra.
Looked like a pleasant street and the reserve is still there and yes I was geocaching in the reserve. Nothing stood out for me and I didn’t take any photos.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 