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Courtenay Street was named after William Reginald Courtenay (1807-1888), one of the trustees of the Plymouth Company. His father, the tenth Earl of Devon, was governor of the company and William was known as Lord Courtenay until he took over the earldom. William studied law at Oxford and was the Conservative Member of Parliament for South Devon between 1841 and 1849. He married Lady Elizabeth Fortescue in 1830 and the couple had four children but their sons William and Hugh both died young, leaving youngest son Edward to become the

The town of Eltham in central Taranaki expanded significantly in the years before the World War One. Increasing farm incomes and favourable government policies, including improved road access, encouraged many land owners to subdivide. One such person was Reuben White.

White had met his Scottish-born wife Elizabeth in New Zealand. After moving about, they eventually started a family and settled on a farm in Te Roti. Living there for many years, he became prominent in the dairy industry. Most notably, he was a director of the Eltham

In the 1890s, the unfortunate William Lloyd was a builder living in Eltham. He was also one of the town’s early landowners. When he surveyed and subdivided an area beside the Mountain Road in 1901, he probably intended to build a few houses there.

A name was needed for the new no-exit road he was forming. Lloyd was friendly with ‘Atty’ Julian. Everyone in the small town knew ‘Atty’. So he suggested the name Julian Street and the Borough Council immediately agreed.

Arthur Julian was one

Hood Place runs off Ōmata Road in Spotswood and was named in 1971 after Hood Street in Plymouth, England. New Plymouth City Council named dozens of new streets after locations in Devon and Cornwall at this time, paying tribute to the origins of the earliest Pākehā immigrants to New Plymouth.

Hood Street in the old Plymouth was named in 1850 after Admiral Samuel Hood, on land owned by the St Aubyn family (who provided yet another link to New Plymouth’s streets). Hood was an officer in the Royal Navy who saw

Presbyterianism had a strong following in the early days of Waverley and the foundation stone for St Andrew's Church was laid by the Hon. William Fox on 7 June 1877. 

St Andrew's was designed by the notable Wellington architect Mr Thomas Turnbull (General Assembly Library, St Peter's Church in Willis Street) and built by Jones & Peachey (Whanganui) at a cost of £750.10.6. The church was opened on 16 December 1877.

Additions (two wings) were completed in 1893 and in 1911 a Sunday School Hall was erected