PAPAKURA CAMP

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 1, 3 May 1940, Page 4

PAPAKURA CAMP

- Plan of Street Names Men Who Built The Army Confronted with the task of givingnames to the many streets running through the new Papakura mobilisation camp, the officer commanding the northern military district, Colonel N. W. McD. Weir, has followed a definite plan which should give pleasure to all past and serving members of the New Zealand Military Forces. The main streets are being called after, the men who built the forces, and. the subsidiary ones are being named after the engineers who built the camp. The main entrance to the camp is to be Godley Street, after the man who laid the foundations of the New Zealand Army of to-day. This leads on to Russell Avenue and Freyberg Avenue, the two major streets running from west to east through the camp. Off these two avenues lead further main streets, which have been named as follows:-—Robin, Chaytor, Richardson, Melvill, Young, Sinclair-Burgess and Duigan. All these men were or are major-generals commanding the New Zealand Forces" in New Zealand or, in some instances, overseas. Within the four blocks is to which the camp is divided, the main subsidiary streets have been named after engineers responsible for the camp’s construction. The names are: Dyson, Rabone, Parsons, Skipwith, Jackman, and Brookes. ■ Thus the naming of all the streets in the camp has been done to a plan, and not left to haphazard choice.