Comer Street in Halswell – C.W. Comer, arrived in NZ 1866, was a farmer down Lincoln Road. He was Secretary and Surveyor of the Halswell Road Board. The Halswell Road Board established and/or maintained many of the roads around Halswell, including Quarry Road (now Kennedys Bush Road) and Glovers Road. This board was a significant contributor to the development of the area.
A small amount of information from the council minutes for the naming of streets in the subdivision.
I checked Papers Past and Ancestry website. Most entries on Papers Past relate to his time on the various boards in Halswell. He was also on the board at Spreydon School. His address was Riverside in Spreydon. His obituary in 1917 said he was clerk to Halswell County Council and he was aged 73. Arrived in New Zealand in 1861 and was a farmer on Lincoln Rd. He left a widow and 8 daughters and 3 sons. Two of the sons were farming in Kaikoura and the other was in France in the armed forces. I found his full name of Charles William Comer on the ancestry website.
The street is too new to be on maps and no houses on the streets apart from a couple at the end of the street. They were down long driveways and were probably existing houses from before the subdivision. One had the address of 10 Glovers Rd on the fence. Looks like the street will continue further along the base of the hill. Not sure if one side of the street will have houses or become a wetlands area. I ended up having a lovely chat with a cyclist who was also wondering about the same thing. Yes I was friendly with a cyclist which isn’t normal for me but she wasn’t attempting to knock me over on a footpath.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 