Kaiwara St in Hoon Hay – Named after the Kaiwara Station in the Culverden area. In a subdivision where the streets are named after rivers or properties in North Canterbury. First appears in street directories in 1962.
A small amount of information from the library website and not lot that I can add about the name of the street except that Kaiwara was the name of the property owned by a past president of the A and P Association Mr L R C Macfarlane.
A reasonable amount of information on Papers Past and lots of ads. New street in 1959 and there were sections for sale in 1960. In 1964 and 1965 there was mention of a primary school to be built on this street but this didn’t happen. No reason given for the school not being built. The residents seemed to be an accident prone lot as they were in car accidents or falling falling off motorbikes and at least one boy fell out of a tree. It looked like a pleasant street but none of the houses stood out for me. Most were built in the 1960s but there were a few from later decades. The brick ones were from the 1990s and brick seemed to be a popular building material for that decade. There is a reserve with a playground on this street and there is a new subdivision behind this side of the street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 