STREET NAMES.

ELIMINATING DUPLICATION MANY CHANGES. I£ has been the of the City Council for several years past to avoid duplication in street names in the city and as occasion arose from time to timo as now areas joined the e>ty aerations w*re effected in street namea to eliminate possible confusion, the Litj Council, however, has no control over the street nomenclature in adjoining districts beyond the municipal boundaries, «nd such duplication as now esis* is due to the exercise of prerogatnes attSing to territorial ™*°P™** D <*: A conference of representatives of the citv and other local authorities will probablv be arranged shortly to arrive at a common policy for the elimination cf duplications. , . , , The following list seta mit"th* struts that have been renamed by the Qtj Council :-*

Central. Former Name. , Present Name. Bowea street Acton street Chnppel street Coventry* tree* Creyke street St. pav.d «»«•* George street Sonthwark street Gladstone terrace Balfour terrace Goslings lane Airedale place Lincoln r<3. (from Moorhouse »v. to , _ Riccarton it. H»?le? avenue Irfrwer High street Ferry road Morton street Belfast street Middle Park road Riccarton avenue Princes street and Ely street Richmond terrace Stafford street Truro street Union street Bangor street York street £P T ',- plB ?«..» t nim - Willis street Chaplm street (no* closed) Wilson atreet Caversham street Linwood. St. between Cashel st. and Essex Bt. Raglan street Cambridge street Bordesley street Canal Reserve L.nwood »«>»«> Church street Leyden sttMt John street Beresford street Avonslde. Carlyle street P", is „ Bt .?,tL Shelley street Brackon street St. Albans. Road between An- Exeter street dover St. & Carlton Mill road Boundary road Rossall street Carlton place Stoneylmrst street Carlton street Carlton Mil! road Carlton terrace Shrewsbury slree. Cooper's road Somme street Harper terrace Julius terrace Leith street Petrie street Matson's av, Mur- Murray place ray st. and Yarra street „ , , Minchin's road Medway street North Crescent road Trafalgar street North stroet Sherborne street Park lane S°^ Bt . reet a Philpott's road McFadden s road Princess street Winchester street Ramsay, Mona, and Douglas streets St. Andrew s square Regent street Cheltenham street St. Albons lane St. Albans street St. James terrace Tonbridgo street Shirley road (from Rutland street to . Green's road) AVestminstor street Tay street Malvern street Toons road Thames street Wairarapa terrace rd. Pulton avenue

Sydenham. Elizabeth street Lawson street Gladstone strec* Wordßworth street Goethe street Domett Btroet Gordon, Andrew and Hastings street

Darwin streets Honover street Burte street Hawkeabury street Kipling street Junction street Moorhouse avenue Nelson street Moore street Norwood avenue- Birdwood avenue Spohr street street Stirling street Oarlylo street Windmill road Antigua street St. Martins. Biver road Riverlaw terrace

Opawa. River road „ £L fi< f ld t . 01 7 ,tc,5 Victoria avenue JS- Cholmondeley »r. Woolston. Ashbourne placo & Henley street Hart street Coronation street Hopkins streot Loudon street Gruuum street Scott place Tanner street Suinnor place . Hcuthcote streot In the main the changes were made to promote directional lucidity, but in certain instances street names wero altered for other reasons. For examplo Goethe street (invariably pronounced incorrectly by those who had occasion to speak it), Hanover street and Spohr street, all in Sydenham, where n commendable custom of naming streets after poets and other intellectuals prevails, hare been changed partly for war reasons to Domett, Burke and Fcilding. In "Wooleton the idea, of intellectuality is now so dominant, for when changes were made since that borough joined tho city the names of certain well-known residents who had served their day and generation in local affairs were granted a territorial immortality.