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Christchurch Street Names: P to Q Current Former Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further name name information Pablo Lane Hoon Hay First appears in street directories in 1984. Packard Named after Halswell Packard was a stock agent of Longhurst Riccarton/Wigram Christchurch Militia Crescent William Sumner Road, Christchurch. Community Board List 1860 Packard (1807?- agenda 15 April 2014 In the 6th stage of the "Advertisements", 1881). Longhurst subdivision where Riccarton/Wigram The Lyttelton Times, the streets are named after Community Board 13 June 1860, p 6 members of the Canterbury agenda 6 May 2014 “Electoral roll for Militia of 1860-1861. the town of Named in 2014. Lyttelton”, The Lyttelton Times, 9 July 1853, p 2 “Death”, Evening Post, 1 August 1881, p 2 Longhurst © Christchurch City Libraries Page 1 of 86 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: P to Q Current Former Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further name name information Packe Street Named after Edgeware Packe was a lieutenant- Electoral rolls 1873- G R Macdonald George Packe colonel who commanded the 1874, Canterbury dictionary of (1836-1882). Canterbury Volunteers. Provincial Council, p Canterbury Earlier he had served in the 383 biographies: P4 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. “Advertisements”, Star, “Deaths”, Star, 17 In 1873 he owned land in 5 July 1902, p 8 October 1882, p 2 nearby Manchester Street. First mentioned in the Star in 1902 when a house in Packe Street is advertised for sale. First appears in street directories in 1903. Paddington Named after the Northcote One of a group of streets Aldgate Street, “New streets in Street London named after London railway Camden Street, Christchurch”, The Paddington stations. The Main North Ealing Street, Press, 28 June 1955, p station, a central Railway passes right by the Fenchurch Street, 6 London railway area. Grosvenor Street, Lambeth Crescent terminus. Named in 1955. and Uxbridge Street. © Christchurch City Libraries Page 2 of 86 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: P to Q Current Former Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further name name information Paeroa Street Named after a Riccarton One of the street names “General news”, The former Māori chosen in 1940 for the State Press, 18 June 1940, p resident. housing subdivision between 6 Riccarton Road and Blenheim Road. The names were selected "as far as possible for their appropriateness". [A resident with that name cannot be located.] Pages Road The Tramline Named after Wainoni Originally only a section of Knightsbridge New Brighton G R Macdonald and New Joshua Page this was a public thoroughfare Lane scrapbooks, 1847-1940 dictionary of Brighton (1826-1900). as, from Breezes Road to Charlotte Knight Canterbury Tram Road. Bexley, it was the private biographies: P17 property of the New Brighton "Road Boards", The “Obituary”, The Tramway Company and Press, 12 June 1894, p Press, 25 January named The Tramline and the 6 1900, p 3 New Brighton Tram Road. “The Drainage Farm”, This is first mentioned in The The Press, 23 "Page's Road", The Press in 1901. November 1901, p 7 Press, 29 August 1911, p 8 Page, a farmer, was a director “Advertisements”, Star, of the tramway company. 31 July 1909, p 6 Page's Road is first mentioned “New Brighton in The Press in 1894 in a signposts to the past”, report of a meeting of the Pegasus Post, 19 Heathcote Road Board. February 1975, p 2 "Page's Road, near Wainoni" is first mentioned in the Star © Christchurch City Libraries Page 3 of 86 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: P to Q Current Former Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further name name information in 1909 in an advertisement. Pages Road first appears in street directories in 1911. Pages Road Named after the Lyttelton Joseph Page (1838-1915) was “Advertisements”, The G R Macdonald Page family, an a shipwright of Lyttelton. In Press, 18 June 1898, p dictionary of early Lyttelton 1906 his sons, Francis John 10 Canterbury West family. Page (1869?-1946) and David biographies: P16 Joseph Page (1871-1948), Turning back the were operating as Page Bros., pages, a family produce merchants in history, 1656-2007 Norwich Quay. Declared by the Lyttelton Borough Council to be a public street from 1 August 1898. Pagoda Named after the Shirley Named because of its “Chester Street West or Street 16th hole on the proximity to the Shirley Cranmer Terrace?’, Shirley Golf Links, at the Christchurch The Press, 28 April Course. Golf Club. 1959, p 7 Named in 1959. “More themes in street names”, The Christchurch Mail, 23 February 1999, p 6 © Christchurch City Libraries Page 4 of 86 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: P to Q Current Former Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further name name information Pahau Place Named after the Cracroft In a subdivision where the Hurunui Street, “Country’s influence”, The Port Hills of Pahau River. streets are named after rivers Opihi Street, The Press, 11 Christchurch, p 242 and sheep stations in North Waiau Street and November 1964, p 30 Canterbury. Waipara Street. "More themes in street First appears in street names", The directories in 1964. Christchurch Mail, 23 February 1999, p 6 Paikea Place Somerfield Named in 1966. Information on date of naming in a letter sent First appears in street to the City Librarian directories in 1970. from the Town Clerk dated 13 December 1966. Paisley Street Parke Street Sumner Parke Street is first mentioned Sumner to Ferrymead: “New names for in The Press in 1904. a Christchurch history, streets”, The Press, 2 June 1948, p 3 First appears in street p 208 directories in 1927. "Advertisements", The “New street names”, Re-named Paisley Street on 1 Press, 11 February The Press, 24 July 1904, p 8 September 1948 when 120 1948, p 2 streets were re-named. "Street names changed: City council approves final list", The Press, 24 August 1948, p 3 © Christchurch City Libraries Page 5 of 86 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: P to Q Current Former Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further name name information Palatine River Road Formerly River St Martins River Road does not appear in "County Councils", Terrace Road. Named street directories. The Press, 15 because it runs C. W. Jones wrote to the September 1934, p 24 alongside the Heathcote County Council in Heathcote 1934 asking for River Road to River. be re-named. The council Re-named decided to re-name it Palatine Palatine Terrace. Terrace. A The request was made by palatine is a Charles Whittington Jones, a high-level sanitary inspector and a official attached resident of Palatine Terrace in to imperial or 1936, the first year it appears royal courts in in street directories. Europe since Roman times. © Christchurch City Libraries Page 6 of 86 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: P to Q Current Former Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further name name information Palinurus Named after the Woolston The Palinurus carried goods Alport Place and "Local and General: the G R Macdonald Road Palinurus, a from Lyttelton to Heathcote Gould Crescent. late Mrs Greaves", dictionary of ketch belonging in the early 1850s. The Star, 18 December Canterbury to Captain obituary of Captain Robert 1897, p 5 biographies: G378 Robert Greaves Greaves’ widow appears in “What’s in a name?”, “Street-name (1819-1879). the Star in 1897. Shoreline: the changes proposed in Palinurus was One of three streets in close community news Woolston”, The the helmsman of proximity named in 1986 to magazine, April 1995, Press, 4 October Aeneas, a give a maritime theme to the pp 18-20 1985, p 5 Trojan hero. area. Formed because of the Woolston Cut flood relief development. Palm Drive Named after the Shirley In the Clearbrook Palms Cayman Close, Report of the palm, a plant subdivision. Havana Gardens, Shirley/Papanui Laguna Gardens, Community Board to found in the Named in March 2000. Caribbean. Montego Close the Council 29 March and Sanctuary 2000 Gardens. © Christchurch City Libraries Page 7 of 86 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: P to Q Current Former Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further name name information Palmers Palmer’s Named after New The Palmers were farmers New Brighton: a “Deaths”, The Press, Road Road Thomas Palmer Brighton whose property was at the regional history, 1852- 2 August 1909, p 1 (1821-1911) lower end of New Brighton 1970, p 190 “Death”, The Press, and his wife, Road, a little before one North New Brighton, 31 May 1911, p 1 Mary Ann reaches Seaview Road. 1953, p 7 Palmer (1820- Palmer’s Road existed from Palmers of the wild 1909). the 1890s, running north more east: from or less parallel to the beach. Kidderminster to New First mentioned in the Star in Brighton 1894 in a report of a meeting “Avon”, Star, 14 of the Avon Road Board. It December 1894, p 4 became a legal road in 1897 but does not appear in street directories until 1911. Palmgrove North New Developed at 153-157 Beach Burwood/Pegasus Lane Brighton Road by Freeman Homes Ltd. Community agenda 2 Named in 1998. February 1998 Palmside Named after the Somerfield One of a number of streets Ferniehurst Street, “More themes in street Street Palmside named after rivers and sheep Greta Place, names”, The Station. stations in North Canterbury. Kaiwara Street, Christchurch Mail, 23 Molesworth Place First appears in street February 1999, p 6 and Tekoa Place. directories in 1962. © Christchurch City Libraries Page 8 of 86 February 2016 Christchurch Street Names: P to Q Current Former Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further name name information Pamela Linwood Named in 1960.