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Matipo Street in Riccarton – formerly Cutlers Road. Ngaio Street was incorporated into Matipo Street. Formerly Cutler’s Road. Named after Henry Cutler (1834-1919). Re-named Matipo Cutler had a market garden and orchard on the east side of the road, a few chains from Riccarton Road. Cutler’s Road is first mentioned in The Press in 1874. …

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Freyberg Ave in Riccarton – Formerly Godley Avenue. Named after John Robert Godley (1814- 1861). Re-named Freyberg Avenue. Named after Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg (1889- 1963). Godley was a lawyer, writer, administrator, coloniser and public servant. “The street in the new Riccarton subdivision on Mr John Brown’s subdivision which runs off Deans Avenue near the …

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Kairuri Lane in Heathcote Valley- too new to be on library website. This street is so new that not only did it not appear on the library website it didn’t appear on the list of streets for the suburb. This street runs off Bridle Path Rd and another one that I walked in November 2020. …

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Heathvale Place in Heathcote Valley – nothing on library website so I assumed that this was a brand new street. The valuation website has all houses except for two of them built in 1980s. The other two were built in 1970s. Some are possibly rebuilds as they looked very new. Another street that I walked …

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Flinders Rd in Heathcote Valley – Named after John Flinders Scott (1876-1941). Scott, a pastoral farmer of Opawa, was a member of the Heathcote County Council for twelve years. First appears in street directories in 1955. A small amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had an article in 1942 about John Flinders …

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Stevens Street in Waltham- Named after Edward Cephas John Stevens (1837-1915). Stevens was a land-agent, businessman, sportsman and politician. He and Richard Harman represented Benjamin Lancaster (d.1887) of Bournemouth, England, who in 1850 had bought Rural Section 62, 50 acres in Ferry Road. (The early purchasers, who were still in England, and, in some cases …

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Lancaster Street in Waltham – Named after Benjamin Lancaster (1801-1887). Lancaster was an original owner of Rural Section 62, cofounder of Price’s Candles in 1830 and, later, the founder of the order of Anglican nursing nuns, St. Peter’s Sisterhood. He retired to Bournemouth and, while living there, sold part of the property in 1880, through …

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Richardson Terrace in Woolston – Named after John Richardson (1847?-1927). River Road South first appears in street directories in 1896. Becomes River Road West in 1900. Re-named Richardson Terrace in 1904. John Richardson, a tanner, was the first mayor of Woolston when the borough was created in 1893. He was mayor until 1896, and again …

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Clarendon Tce formerly River Road West in Woolston. Named after the Clarendon Building, part of Oxford University. There is a group of streets near the Radley Bridge given names associated with Oxford, England. Clarendon Terrace is first mentioned in an advertisement in the Star in 1881 and first appears in street directories in 1903 with …

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Ailsa Place in Mairehau – Developed on farmland previously owned by Arthur William Emmett (d. 1948) and sold after his death. Part of the land was bought by the government for a state housing area “laid out on modern town planning lines”. It was referred to as Emmetts Block. Named on 24 June 1948. First …

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