Fraser Street in Papanui – Named after Frederick James Edgar Fraser (1907?-1964). Fraser was headmaster of Papanui Primary School 1951-1963. Named in September 1968. First appears in street directories in 1981. Information on date of naming in a letter sent to the City Librarian from the Town Clerk dated 18 September 1968.
A small amount of information from the library website. I only found a couple of ads on Papers Past for Fraser St in Papanui but it was a very common street name in New Zealand. Because there was a street named after him I expected to see information on Papers Past for Frederick Fraser but nothing. He was born in Gore in 1907 and possibly died in Gore. He was only 57 when he died. He is mentioned on the online cenotaph and he served in the Middle East and North Africa during WWII.
I searched old maps and this street was probably formed on the site of a disused garage that was on Tuttons Rd which is now the top end of Cranford Street.
The houses are on only one side of the street and the valuation website gives the date of 1980s for the houses here but they were probably built in the 1970s as the ads for the sale of houses here were in 1978. Papanui Primary School is on the other side of the street and I did sneak into the grounds of the school because of the street art style of artwork here.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 