Karitane Drive in Cashmere – Named after the Karitane Baby Hospital on Cashmere Road which, in turn, was named after Sir Truby King’s original home, a cottage in Karitane, Otago. Albury Cottage, on the Cashmere Hills, was chosen to be the Christchurch Karitane Baby Hospital in 1918. It was opened that year with no formal ceremony because of the influenza epidemic Karitane Drive first appears in street directories in 1968.
A reasonable amount of information on the library website. Very little information on Papers Past as it only had a couple of ads and a couple of death notices.
I decided to look at the Karitane Baby Hospital instead. In May 1918 the Plunket Society purchased Albury Cottage for £3,500 and it was an up to date 10 room bungalow. They planned to built a nurses annex of 6 rooms. Extensions were added in 1938. In 1957 it was decided to built a 40 bed hospital. I imagine that the old hospital was no longer big enough or suitable.
The street is fairly steep and most houses were built between 1960 and 1980. On the corner of Karitane Drive and Crichton Tce there is Karitane Mews and this is an over 60s complex. After checking photos online I suspect that the Mews is built where the hospital used to be. Great views from this street especially from the higher part of the street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 