Southern View: February 06, 2018

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Tuesday February 6 2018 5
RETURNED: John
Edmonds asked the
city council to put the
‘s’ back into Linwood’s
Edmond St, which was
originally named after
his great-grandfather.
PHOTO: MARTIN
HUNTER
• By Bridget Rutherford
THE ‘S’ will be returned to
a street named after the man
behind a Kiwi kitchen icon
more than a century after it was
mysteriously removed.
Linwood’s Edmond St will be
corrected to Edmonds St after
Christchurch businessman and
philanthropist Thomas John
Edmonds.
He founded Edmonds Sure to
Rise baking powder.
The Linwood-Central-
Heathcote Community Board
approved the change last week.
The street was named after T J
Edmonds in 1878. But somehow
after 1893, it was altered and the
‘s’ was removed for no apparent
reason.
T J Edmonds’ great grandson,
John Edmonds, asked the city
council if the spelling could be
corrected last year.
To do so, the city council
had to consult with the street’s
residents.
One responded saying while
they did not have an issue with
the renaming, they were concerned
it could cause confusion
with mail delivery
and they would
need to change
their address with
organisations such
as the Inland Revenue
Department.
However, city
council staff said
there were no
other streets in
the city with a
similar name, so
there would be no
confusion with mail
delivery.
Staff said while inconvenient,
changing addresses with those
organisations was easier now
because it could be done online.
John Edmonds said he was
“very happy” to hear his greatgrandfather’s
legacy was being
restored.
“It’s a courtesy that’s well warranted
. . . and I’m sure he would
appreciate it as well. He was very
conscious of the future,” he said.
It would cost $500 to install a
Local
News
Now
Street name changed
back to honour Edmonds
baking powder founder
Fire rages, homes at risk
new street sign with the correct
spelling. Edmond St runs off
Aldwins Rd and
sits next to the
Edmonds Factory
Gardens.
T J Edmonds had
the gardens created
around his factory,
which was built in
1923.
Although the
iconic factory was
controversially
demolished in
1990, it still appears
on the cover of
the Edmonds
Cookery Book with the iconic
sunray motif on it.
T J Edmonds was a wellknown
philanthropist. He built
the Edmonds Band Rotunda on
Cambridge Tce near Manchester
St in 1929. He also partly, or fully
funded, several other buildings,
including Kilmore St’s demolished
Repertory Theatre, the
Clock Tower on Oxford Tce, and
the former Theosophical Society
building on Cambridge Tce.
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