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Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries

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Current<br />

name<br />

Salmond<br />

Road<br />

Saltaire<br />

<strong>Street</strong><br />

<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>Street</strong> <strong>Names</strong>: S<br />

Former<br />

name<br />

Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further<br />

information<br />

Named after<br />

John William<br />

Salmond (1862-<br />

1924).<br />

Named after the<br />

property,<br />

Saltaire. This<br />

was named after<br />

Saltaire, a 19th<br />

century English<br />

model factory<br />

town established<br />

Hoon Hay Salmond was a lawyer, university<br />

professor, law draftsman,<br />

solicitor general and judge.<br />

In 1968 the street names subcommittee<br />

of the council felt that<br />

as Halswell was named after a<br />

prominent English Queen's<br />

Counsel it would be appropriate<br />

to record the names of judges in<br />

street names. Many of them had<br />

been QCs or KCs before<br />

appointment to the Bench.<br />

North New<br />

Brighton<br />

The house was owned by<br />

William Allan Hopkins (1857-<br />

1933) from the 1880s until his<br />

bankruptcy in 1920-1921.<br />

It was then bought by Charles<br />

Dixon of Dixon’s Butchers. The<br />

Roman Catholics opened a<br />

Redemptorist monastery on this<br />

<strong>Christchurch</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Libraries</strong> Page 4 of 136<br />

8 August 2013<br />

Alpers Place,<br />

Barrowclough<br />

Road, Callan<br />

Place, Dalglish<br />

Place, Fair<br />

Place, Haslam<br />

Crescent,<br />

Herdman<br />

Road,<br />

Leicester<br />

Crescent,<br />

McCarthy<br />

<strong>Street</strong>, Myers<br />

Place,<br />

Northcroft<br />

Road, O'Leary<br />

<strong>Street</strong>, Ostler<br />

Place and<br />

Stanton<br />

Crescent.<br />

“Judges’ names”, The<br />

Press, 17 September<br />

1968, p 1<br />

Saltaire “Advertisements”, The<br />

Press, 27 May 1911, p<br />

14<br />

"Saltaire <strong>Street</strong><br />

commemorates more<br />

than an era of gracious<br />

living at Brighton",<br />

Pegasus Post, 20<br />

View the biography<br />

of John William<br />

Salmond in the<br />

Dictionary of New<br />

Zealand Biography.<br />

"Hoon Hay<br />

subdivision<br />

provides 570<br />

sections", The<br />

Press, 30<br />

September 1964, p<br />

1<br />

“The late Sir Titus<br />

Salt”, New Zealand<br />

Herald”, 4 January<br />

1877, p 2<br />

Saltaire<br />

Rich man, poor<br />

man,<br />

environmentalist,

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