Percy Fever Street in Halswell and nothing on the library website. From the council website . The Board decided to request that staff investigate options for inclusion of Anzac insignia on the street signs for Harry Manship Crescent and Percy Fever Street.

This young man took a bit of searching as Percy Fever wasn’t his real name but he is on the Halswell War Memorial under that name. He is mentioned in an article about Halswell’s Heroes in December 1916. He was killed in action on 21st September 1916 at the Somme and is buried at Sailly-Au-Bois Cemetery under the surname Perrett. His real name was Reuben Percy Claud Perrott and Fever was his stepfather’s surname. His father Arthur Ernest Perrott deserted his mother Harriet in 1895 and she eventually got a divorce in 1902. She remarried Frederick Fever a few months later. Note she already had at least one child to Frederick Fever before they were able to get married. Percy’s mother was pregnant with him when his father disappeared so he only ever knew Frederick as a father.

This street isn’t on the map yet and is still being formed and it runs off Harry Manship Crescent. I will have to come back in a couple of years time to walk it properly but decided to write it up anyway.

Harry Manship Crescent in Halswell and nothing on the library website. The council not only had the name for the street but some extra information. The Board decided to request that staff investigate options for inclusion of Anzac insignia on the street signs for Harry Manship Crescent and Percy Fever Street.

Edited to say that the streets in the subdivision at 340 Halswell Junction Road have been named after young men who are on the Halswell War Memorial. They all died in World War One.

I searched Papers Past, Ancestry website, Findagrave and online Cenotaph NZ.

His death notice said that he died 19th December 1918 of pneumonia. He is buried at Chanack Consular Cemetery in Turkey and the online Cenotaph NZ says that he died of influenza. He was born 11th November 1889 and he was a farm labourer in Halswell when he was recruited.

There are 15 properties here and many are still empty sections. I was about to walk the full crescent but google maps only show half of the crescent and there isn’t any street view. The date of street view for the area is 2021. There isn’t an ANZAC insignia on the street sign.

Albert Wills Avenue and nothing on library website. The council website has it as Albert Wills Avenue but valuation websites including the official QV one all have it as Albert Willis Avenue. I double checked and maps and signposts have the correct name of Albert Wills Avenue. I seem to have one a lot of editing for this write up

I thoroughly searched Papers Past and ancestry website for Albert Willis and Albert Wills and couldn’t find anyone with these names living in this area. I also checked cemetery websites with no luck. It is possible that they owned land here but didn’t live here.

Edited as I have found out who Albert Wills is and I personally think it is an insult that the Valuation websites have got his name wrong. All the streets in the subdivision of 340 Halswell Junction Rd have been named after young men whose names are on the Halswell War Memorial. Albert Victor Wills was born 27th June 1897 in Sydenham. He went to Sydenham School and then Christchurch Technical College. He falsified his age to go to war. He looked so young in the photo that I found online. He was killed in action on 25th September 1916 and there is a memorial to him at Caterpillar Valley New Zealand Memorial in Longueval, Somme in France

There are 12 houses here with all bar one built in 2019 and 2020. There was a huge property that I liked but didn’t manage a photo of it. The valuation website says it was built in 1910 and QV website say 1914. There is no way I would have picked this house as being that old and it must have been thoroughly updated. I did attempt to look at street view but this street didn’t exist before 2019 and older street views of Halswell Junction Road has a huge hedge in the way. It was a neat and tidy street and at the entrance on a wall there are the words Copper Ridge.

Gallantry Lane in Halswell and nothing on library website. The council website just had the name and nothing about the reason for the name. Gallantry means courageous behaviour especially in battle. This street is near Valour Lane and there has to be a connection.

Edited as I have found out the reason for the name of the street. The streets in the subdivision at 340 Halswell Junction Road have been named after the young men who are on the Halswell War Memorial. They all died in World War One.

There are 8 houses here built between 2019 and 2022 and they all seemed to look exactly the same. There wasn’t a footpath

Stubberfield Street in Halswell and nothing on library website. The council website only gives the name of the street and not the reason for the name. The council website also called it Stubberfield Lane but maps and signpost says street. On Papers Past I found John Harvey Stubberfield of 366 Halswell Junction Road where this subdivision was developed. He died in 1982 aged 57 and the property was then sold. He grew vegetables plus had fruit trees. He had been a blacksmith in Leeston at one stage. He never married and is buried with his parents at Bromley cemetery. There are 7 properties here with houses built between 2021 and 2023 with at least two empty sections. There was one house with a few interesting garden decorations but didn’t manage a photo of them.

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 for the name of the street. The streets in the subdivision at 340 Halswell Junction Road have been named after the young men who are on the Halswell War Memorial. They all died in World War One.

There are 8 houses here and they all looked exactly the same. They were built mostly built in 2019 but a couple were built in 2021. It is a narrow lane with no footpath. At the back of the houses there is a walkway and a reserve called Bill Harvey Park.

I didn’t manage to get a decent photo but one of the houses was using the back fence as a clothesline.

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 which explained everything. The article was about a petition that nearby residents had presented to the council with their objections to social housing being built here. The petition was declined and there are 17 social housing units here. This does explain a slightly weird incident that I saw when I walked this street. One of the residents in one of the social housing units obviously didn’t want to speak to the man knocking on their door. The man peered through the windows before getting back into his car and speeding off.

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 walked a tiny faction of the street. It felt too much like a driveway. Nothing stood out for me here.

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 be the name for the street but not why. Akiraho is a plant. There are ten houses here built in 2022 and 2023. I didn’t walk it as it just looked like a driveway and the only way I figured out that it was a street was because it had a sign post.

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 didn’t actually walk it as it just looks like a private driveway. There is a walkway next to it which goes from Halswell Junction Rd to Bill Harvey Drive. No photos as the houses didn’t stand out for me. Boring was the word that popped into my head.