Greta Place in Hoon Hay – Named after the Greta stream which is some miles north of Motunau. In a subdivision where the streets are named after rivers or properties in North Canterbury. Named in 1959. First appears in street directories in 1966.
A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. There was an article in Papers Past dated 1964 where it said that the street got it’s name from the well known Greta Stream on the main Picton – Bluff Highway. It was a new street in 1959. There were many ads for sections in 1963 and it was part of the Littledale subdivisions. Some ads said that the sections had stream frontages but I couldn’t see a stream today. The stream is probably at the back of the houses.
The houses didn’t stand out for me but they looked pleasant enough. One garden had a huge tree.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 