Titoki St in Riccarton – Named after the titoki tree, native to New Zealand. The name continues the theme of street names in Riccarton which commemorate the Deans families’ efforts to conserve the native forest trees in Riccarton. The naming was also designed to perpetuate the Maori names of plants. Described in 1938 as being in a new subdivision of the Riccarton Estate. First appears in street directories in 1940.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add about the name of the street. Not much information on Papers Past and found the same article about the subdivision in 1938. Letter to the editor in 1949 was complaining about the horses in Deans Reserve. In 1957 approval was granted to build a scout den in Riccarton Bush on a site near Titoki St. There was one engagement notice and a couple of death notices.
Only four houses here and two were built in the 1940s. The houses are gorgeous and seriously above my budget. The houses are only on one side of the street and there is parking for Riccarton House and Bush is on the other side.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 