Takapu Place in Bromley and nothing on the library website. I checked both the old and new street information on the library website.
Luckily I found an article from 1972 where six streets are mentioned as being named after the Maori names for birds that live in the Estuary. It was a new subdivision in 1972 and I managed to walk all six streets today. Takapu means gannet.
Nothing much on Papers Past. A few ads and one death notice. A building firm that went broke in 1975 was building some of the houses on this street. In November 1980 on the 14th there was an article about an elderly man being missing. Sadly on the 21st November he was found by a Harbour Board worker off Gladstone Pier in Lyttelton. Can this 71 year old object to the word elderly being used for the 72 year old man.
The houses here were built in the 1970s and 1980s and it was a fairly well kept street with the houses being typical for the era. One was possibly altered to give a bit of a fake tudor look.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 