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Valour Lane in Halswell and nothing on the library website. The council website didn’t give a reason for the name of the street. Valour means great bravery. I did look for the surname Valour on ancestry website but couldn’t find anyone in New Zealand with that name. Edited as I have found out the reason …

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Liquidambar Street in Halswell and nothing on library website. The council just gives the name of the street but not the reason for the name. Liquidambar is a flowering cherry tree. I was surprised that the valuation website only showed one house as there are several houses here. I found an article dated May 2023 …

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Olearia Lane in Halswell and nothing on library website including the new and unimproved website. The council website didn’t give a reason for the name but Olearia is a variety of a daisy. Only 8 houses here built in 2022 and 2023 and it is too new for street view. No footpath and I only …

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Akiraho Lane in Halswell and nothing on library website. This includes the new library website for street names. Note when I spoke with staff at the library a couple of years ago I was told that all new streets would be included when they revamped the website. The council website just said that this will …

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Korokio Lane in Haswell and nothing on library website. This includes the new and so-called improved website. The council website just said that the name had been approved but not why. Korokio is a plant. Only 7 houses here built in 2022 but street view for 2021 shows at least one house almost finished. I …

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Cannon Hill Cres in Mt Pleasant – Named because it runs through Cannon Hill which, in turn, is named after the Cannon family. The Cannon Hill estate was owned by 3 generations of the Cannon family. Philip Henry Cannon (1846?-1927) was a runholder of the Heathcote Valley in 1914. First appears in street directories in …

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Valley View in Mt Pleasant and nothing on either the old or new library website. You would think that the new revamped streets information on the library website would added new streets but this hasn’t happened. Most houses on this street were built in the 1990s so it is hardly a new street. The name …

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Freeman Street in Mt Pleasant – Named after Frederick Willie Freeman (1881- 1969). Freeman, an engineer, was a long-time Heathcote County Council member and also chairman for five years. Named by the developer, Cannon Estate Ltd. First appears in street directories in 1964 A small amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had …

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Lapwing Lane in Mt Pleasant – Named after the Lapwing, a 35 tonne sailing vessel that delivered timber and other goods to Heathcote in the 1860s. Named on 2 June 1999. A small amount of information from the library website. Lots of ads on Papers Past under shipping news. It seemed to be a coastal …

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Brigid Place in Mt Pleasant – Named after Brigid Dowsett, née Davis, (1967-).Brigid Dowsett is a daughter of Michael John Wood Davis, a surveyor and chairman of Cannon Estate Ltd., developers of the subdivision where this street was formed. First appears in street directories in 1978. A small amount of information from the library website …

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