Christchurch street names T - V - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names: T to V
Current
name
Taupata
Street
Former
name
Slater
Street and
William
Street.
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Formerly Slater
Street. Named
after Henry
Slater Richards
(1860?-1926).
Also formerly
William Street.
Probably named
after Augustus
William
Bennetts.
Re-named
Taupata Street.
Redcliffs Slater Street and William
Street first appear in street
directories in 1910. Richards
was a land agent and
Bennetts was an auctioneer.
Both men were members of
the syndicate that subdivided
part of Redcliffs. Bennetts
was later declared bankrupt.
Slater Street is first
mentioned in The Press in
1892 when a section is
advertised for sale there.
The two streets were
amalgamated and re-named
Taupata Street on 1
September 1948 when 120
streets were re-named.
Christchurch City Libraries Page 12 of 95
8 August 2013
Augusta
Street
Sumner to
Ferrymead: a
Christchurch history,
pp 206 & 209
The Port Hills of
Christchurch, p 78
“Advertisements”,
The Press, 23 June
1892, p 8
“Meeting of
creditors”, The Press,
10 October 1894, p 3
“New street names”,
The Press, 1 June
1948, p 3
G. R Macdonald
dictionary of
Canterbury
biographies: S412
“Obituary, late Mr
H. S. Richards”,
The Press, 13
August 1926, p 11
“New names for
streets”, The Press,
2 June 1948, p 3