Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries
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 />
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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,