Samantha Lawry Road in Hornby and it is too new to be on the library website or on google maps. I managed to find out who Samantha Lawry was and it is very sad. She died in a car accident in 2001 aged 12. The accident was on an icy road in the middle of winter. Her family lived on Awatea Road where this street is being developed. Her father died last year and he was only 70 which is my age. The council approved the name of the street in 2023 but didn’t say why the name. The houses are still being built here but a couple have been finished and it looked like they were occupied.

There is a pleasant walkway behind the street which I walked to get back to where I had parked my car.

Schofield Lane in Hornby and too new to be on the library website about streets. I couldn’t find the council information but I found a wee bit of information on a different part of the library website – Typescript draft titled historical information in the Wigram area by W. Raymond Schofield, detailing the history of farms and individuals in the area.

William R Schofield lived at 72 Awatea Road and this lane was developed behind his property. William died in 2012 and the houses on this lane were built between 2017 and 2019. William’s father Joseph lived at 48 Awatea Road and he died in 1985 aged 100. Joseph sounds like a fit man as there was an article in Papers Past about him walking the Bridle Path at the age of 93.

This is a private lane with no footpaths with only about 3 or 4 houses so I didn’t actually walk. I never feel comfortable walking such lanes as I feel like I am in private property.

Griselinia Crescent in Wigram and too new for library website. It is probably named after a plant. I did check ancestry website as I was expecting it to be named after a member of the Dellaca family. As I started writing this I decided to have another google and found information on the council website – Griselinia is a genus of seven species of shrubs and trees, with a highly disjunct distribution native to New Zealand and South America. It is a classic example of the Antarctic flora. It is a broadleaf, named for Franseco Griselini, an Italian naturalist from the 1700s.

This street is on maps but it hasn’t been developed or formed yet. The developers map on the council website was interesting as it was showing several houses on a section where I know that there is only one house.

Agathis Crescent in Wigram and too new for library website. It would have been named after a plant. This street wasn’t here last time I was in the area. I was checking one of my geocaches in Zinnia Park. Note it seems to be missing. The park was much smaller then and today I was able to walk to this street. When I hid the geocache in the park there was a paddock where there is now this street. Houses were built between 2022 and 2024 and they all looked almost exactly the same but I didn’t get a photo. It is a bit of a pity as almost all of them had a red front door and this amused me. The crescent runs off Brusio Drive and this is where my iphone got confused as Apple maps said that not only was the street in Hornby but had part of Brusio Drive as being Agathis Crescent. Luckily google maps had it correctly in Wigram and had it as a crescent and not a rectangle shape.

Edited as I found information on the council website – Agathis, commonly known as kauri, is a genus of 22 species of evergreen tree. The name agathis is derived from Greek and means ‘ball of thread’ for the distinctive cone. The kauri is the most famous native tree in New Zealand, mainly because it is among the largest trees in the world.

Ensete Road in Wigram and too new for the library website. It would have been named after a plant. Houses here were built between 2018 and 2021 and no photos as none of them stood out for me. Modern houses with lawns and a few shrubs. Footpath on only one side of the street. What came to mind was boring.

Hosta Lane in Wigram and too new for the library website. It will have been named after a plant. The valuation website said that the houses were built in 2018 which surprised me as I walked this area in 2020 and I don’t recall any houses here. When I walked Myrtle Rd and Brusio Drive in 2020 I made a note that there were houses being built and a couple of unnamed streets here.

I didn’t walk this street as it was another narrow private lane with no footpaths. It was also a crescent shape which is unusual for a lane. No photos for this street

Dianthus Place in Wigram and too new for the library website. It would have been named after a plant. Houses built between 2020 and 2022 but none stood out for me. Footpath on only one side of the street and the best thing about the street was the walkway through to another walkway.

Snapdragon Lane in Wigram and too new for the library website. The street would have been named after a plant. The houses were built between 2020 and 2022. I didn’t walk this street as it was a private lane with no footpath. Weird shape for a lane as it was crescent shaped.

Lotus Place in Wigram and it is too new for the library website. It will have been named after a plant. The houses here were built between 2022 and 2024 and they looked OK but mostly just lawns rather than gardens. This street is next to a motorway and there is a tall fence between the motorway and the street but it could still get noisy. The footpath was on only one side of the street and even though there was plenty of parking in the street there were cars parked on yellow no parking lines. Get the feeling that I wasn’t overly impressed with the street.

Tea Tree Lane in Wigram and it is too new for the library website. It will have been named after the tree. It runs off Owaka Rd and this street wasn’t there when I walked Owaka Rd in 2020.

I didn’t actually walk this street as there wasn’t a footpath and there was only a couple of businesses here plus I didn’t feel like getting run over by a big truck.