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Lost Christchurch Former name Origin of name Where Additional information See Source Further information Waimairi District Council and Waimairi County Council. Waimairi means: a listless stream, honey water, water by which maire trees grow, Meetings of ratepayers were held in 1909 to consider the proposal to form the road districts of Riccarton, Spreydon and Avon into a new county, Waimairi County. According to his obituary, the name “Proposed new county”, Star, 3 March 1909, p 1 “Riccarton’s future”, Waimairi life “Personal Matters”, Evening Post, 31 May or peaceful water running by a tree. Waimaero is the correct Maori version. was suggested by Wilfred John Walter (1878-1946), a Marshland farmer. At the time of the merger he was chairman of the Avon Road Road. The first meeting was held 17 May 1910. Samuel Albert Staples Star, 29 January 1909, p 4 “Waimairi County Council”, The Press, 18 1927, p 11 (1855?-1927) was elected the first chairman. May 1910, p 2 The offices were once on the Main North Road/Sissons Road corner. The foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1911 upon constitution of Waimairi County which was formed “Advance Waimairi”, The Press, 29 August 1911, p 2 from part of Selwyn County, the whole of the Avon Road Board and part of the Riccarton Road Board. The building was officially opened 28 August 1911. “Obituary, Mr W. J. Walter”, The Press, 29 October 1946, p 8 Moved to a new administrative block on the corner of Jeffreys Road and Clyde Road in 1959. Merged with Christchurch City Council in 1989. "Waimairi County offices for sale", The Papanui Herald, 6 March 1959, p 3 Christchurch City Libraries Updated July 2013 138
Lost Christchurch Former name Origin of name Where Additional information See Source Further information Wainoni Block Between the Formed when a 50-acre dairy “Big Wainoni Avon River, west farm owned by Stewart subdivision”, The of the Bower Clendining Hampton (1908- Press, 20 June 1969, p 1 bridge and the 1993) of 401 Wainoni Road northern end of was subdivided. Over 240 the Avondale golf state houses and a few course. privately-owned houses were built here in the years after 1969. Wakefield Town Named after Felix Sumner Wakefield, a surveyor and Sumner, pp 16 & 23 G. R Macdonald Wakefield (1807- engineer, selected Rural dictionary of 1875). Section 2, 100 acres in Province of Canterbury, Canterbury Sumner. New Zealand: list of sections purchased to biographies: W40 April 30, 1863, p 1 Felix Wakefield : a life of fitful fever Christchurch City Libraries Updated July 2013 139 "Rural Sections chosen", The Lyttelton Times, 1 March 1851, p 6 “Local and General”, Star, 24 December 1875, p 2
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