Makora St in Fendalton – formerly Kaka Street. Kaka Street was formed off 159 Fendalton Road. In the Murray-Aynsley subdivision. Re-named Makora Street at the request of residents in 1942. Kaka Street is first mentioned in The Press in 1929.
A small amount of information from the library website. Not much on Papers Past apart from death notices and then in the 1970s there were engagement notices. In 1941 there was a new subdivision from the Blair Athol estate. There wasn’t a reason given for why the residents wanted the street name changed from Kaka to Makora. There was mention of a soil cement house in 1950 and I got the impression that it was a new concept.
The houses here cover every decade from 1940s to 2020 and the house that I loved is apparently from 1950 but I was positive that it would have been from 1910 or 1920. A huge range of house styles ranging from really lovely to really ugly. Some lovely gardens but why do the ultra modern houses have such sterile and boring looking gardens. I was doing a lab adventure yesterday and decided to walk from waypoint to waypoint rather than drive.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 