Metehau Street in Marshland – Named after George Williams Metehau, of Ngāi Tuahuriri, Tuahiwi. Metehau was an early Ngāi Tahu leader. Named by Ngāi Tahu Property Group, developer of the subdivision.
A small amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had a few entries for George and he sounded like an interesting person. His nickname was Gentleman George. He visited both America and Australia several times. In June 1852 he wrote an interesting letter to the editor and there are at least two different interpretations of this letter. Some people read it as a serious letter and others considered that he was playing a joke. There was also an incident where he chased a W B D Mantell with an axe / mere. An article in Papers Past has a different reason for the dispute from what I found on a website for the history of Kaiapoi.
A couple of houses stood out as they have been built in an older style. There were some different letterboxes on this street where rather than the house numbers being written as numbers they were in word form. I started my walk from the reserve on the Lower Styx Rd end and I was expecting to end at another reserve as my map had a green space on it. Instead I was met with fences and it is obvious that the road is being extended.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 