SOUTH BRIGHTON SANDSPIT
SOUTHSHORE SOUGHT AS NAME A request from the Southshore Ratepayers’ Association that the area of the South New Brighton sandspit should be known as Southshore was referred to the finance and by-laws committee by the City Council. The Maori name of the locality was Te Korero Karoro, interpreted as the chatter of the seagulls, the association said, but such a name was unlikely to be adopted generally as Maori place names were not popular in the South Island and as it would be shortened and rendered meaningless. The area is from the end of Estuary road to the end of the sandspit and was at one time part of the Bowker Estate. It was subdivided soon after the end of the First World War and the two major subdivisions were called Southend and Southshore.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27733, 10 August 1955, Page 7
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