Big Kaiapoi Subdivision Starts To Take Shape

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31029, 7 April 1966, Page 20

Big Kaiapoi Subdivision Starts To Take Shape

Kaiapoi’s largest subdivision, which will eventually provide 102 housing sections, four shop sites and a recreation-’ area, already has 16 houses completed or nearing completion. Development will be in four stages. AH 27 sections in the first stage have been sold, and there have been sales in the second block, although it has not yet been fully developed. Comprising 26 acres which once formed part of Mr F. Tozer’s dairy farm, the land is owned by Meadow Estates, Ltd., whose principal, Mr R. R. Currie, said yesterday that the venture represented faith in Kaiapoi’s growth, and an effort to meet the demand for housing sections in the borough. The subdivision lies to the i east of the Main North road, ' and is bounded at the north by the road to Kairaki, and to the south by Meadow street.

Underground wiring has been installed, and the land will probably be reticulated for high-pressure water when the council scheme is in operation. Named After Settler Oram street, which runs off Meadow street, is named, at the suggestion of the Historic Places Trust, after Mr Charles Oram, who took up the land from the Maoris some time after his arrival at Kaiapoi in 1858. Mr Oram, a man of consequence in the district, built the Pier Hotel, got a coach service to and from Christchurch, was one of the promoters of the Kaiapoi woollen factory, and at one time ran the Royal Hotel, Christchurch. Bracebridge street, the main through road in the subdivision, has a sentimental attachment for Mr Currie. He used to race Norton motorcycles, and the Norton factory is at Bracebridge in Britain.