Purau Tce in Cashmere – Named after Purau, the estate of the Rhodes family on Banks Peninsula. The Rhodes Memorial Convalescent Home was built in 1886 with help from money contributed by the sons of Robert Heaton Rhodes (1815-1885). The street was formed on a subdivision of land belonging to the Home in 1952. First appears in street directories in 1957.
A small amount of information from the library website and nothing I can add about the name. You can borrow from the library a book called Rhodes on Cashmere: a history of the Rhodes Memorial Convalescent Home. It is a good read.
Not many entries on Papers Past apart from a few death notices. In 1953 there were sections for sale on behalf of The Rhodes Memorial Convalescent Home.
I had walked down through the Purau Reserve and was pleased that I could walk back to my car on the flat from this street. This looked like a lovely street and most houses had lovely gardens. Most houses were built in the 1950s but the one that caught my eye looked modern. Not sure if I liked it but it certainly stood out.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 