Moana Street in the suburb of Somerfield, Christchurch

Moana St in Somerfield – formerly part of Tainui Street. First mentioned in The Press in 1936. First appears in street directories in 1938.

A tiny amount of information from the library website. Not much information on Papers Past and I only looked at Moana St and not from when it was Tainui St. It was too confusing to try and separate what entries related to this street and what entries related to the part of the street that kept the Tainui St name. The street became Moana St in the 1930s. There was mostly ads on Papers Past with a few death notices. A young girl was attacked and indecently assaulted in 1976 when she was walking home from Girl Guides.

This is a lovely tree lined street and today when I walked it every tree had a big red ribbon around it. It looked lovely. At least five of the houses date from 1910 and they are gorgeous. The rest seem to be 1930s or 1990s.