Taranui Place in the suburb of Bromley, Christchurch

Taranui 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. Taranui means Caspian Tern.

Not much information on Papers Past and there were a few ads and a couple of death notices. In 1989 a man was murdered in a house here. He was stabbed by a woman living at the same address.

A very ordinary looking street with houses mostly built in the 1970s and 1980s. One house looks like it is about to be either demolished or rebuilt.

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