Waiau St – Named after the Waiau River. In a subdivision where the streets are named after rivers and sheep stations in North Canterbury. First appears in street directories in 1964.
A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name. Not a lot on Papers Past apart from ads. In 1962 there were 40 sections for sale and they were described as being on Cashmere Stream. In 1975 there were complaints about silt being on Waiau St properties and that the silt had come from the Worsley Spur subdivision.
The houses were mostly built in 1960s and a few from 1970s and none stood out for me. One side of the street has Cashmere Stream Reserve behind it and the stream runs between the houses and the reserve. My thoughts when I walked in the reserve was that I wouldn’t like to live in these houses because of the risk of flooding. They had nice gardens. I stayed on the footpath as the ground was very boggy.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 