John Holmes Road in Halswell and nothing on the library website. The council website doesn’t give a reason for the name. I searched Papers Past, Ancestry website and Findagrave and couldn’t find a John Holmes who lived in this area. John Holmes was a fairly common name which didn’t help.
Edited as I have found the correct John Holmes. John Alexander Huntley Holmes was born in Pigeon Bay in December 1884 and he died of his wounds on 30th September 1915. He is buried at the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt. His name is on the Halswell War Memorial and the Pigeon Bay War Memorial. His father George Gordon Holmes was born in Huntley in Canada and came to New Zealand when his father inherited property. John Holmes was in the Mounted Rifles which makes sense as his father George Gordon Holmes breed and owned race horses. The streets in the subdivision at 340 Halswell Junction Road are named after young men on the Halswell War Memorial who all died in World War One.
At this stage there are only 12 houses here and they were built between 2021 and 2023. There is a big section that is blocked off as it hasn’t been formed yet. The part of the street near Bill Harvey Park would be pleasant enough but at the other end which is near the Kartsport’s race track would be horrible.
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