{"id":524,"date":"2021-04-23T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/?page_id=524"},"modified":"2021-04-26T20:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T08:59:04","slug":"mairehau-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/mairehau-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Mairehau | History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The suburb was named after Rose Mairehau (Maire) Hutton (n\u00e9e Rhodes), daughter of Arthur Rhodes, who in turn was Mayor of Christchurch in 1901\u20131902 and a major local property owner.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mairehau\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mairehau<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Named after Rose Mairehau Hutton, n\u00e9e Rhodes, (1894- 1991). The New Zealand native shrub mairehau, Phebalium nudum, is named after Maire, an invisible M\u0101ori mist maiden.<br>Rose Hutton, known to her family as Maire, was the daughter of Arthur Edgar Gravenor Rhodes (1859-1922), mayor of Christchurch in 1901, and his wife, Rosetta &#8220;Rose&#8221; Rhodes (1865?-1932). The Rhodes family owned land in the Marshland area.<br>During World War One, residents felt that the district needed a name to use when holding functions to farewell soldiers leaving for the front. When they read the account of Rose Rhodes\u2019 wedding to Major George Frederick Hutton (1882?-1955) at Christ Church, Down Street, Piccadilly, London, on 9 December 1915, they decided to use her middle name. It was also a way of acknowledging the contribution of her parents to the district. Mr &amp; Mrs Rhodes presented the district with a piano for their hall from their own home in appreciation of the naming of the district after their daughter.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/Heritage\/PlaceNames\/ChristchurchPlaceNames-A-M.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/christchurchcitylibraries.com\/Heritage\/PlaceNames\/ChristchurchPlaceNames-A-M.pdf<\/a>, Pg 176<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suburb was named after Rose Mairehau (Maire) Hutton (n\u00e9e Rhodes), daughter of Arthur Rhodes, who in turn was Mayor of Christchurch in 1901\u20131902 and a major local property owner.https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mairehau Named after Rose Mairehau Hutton, n\u00e9e Rhodes, (1894- 1991). The New Zealand native shrub mairehau, Phebalium nudum, is named after Maire, an invisible M\u0101ori mist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/mairehau-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mairehau | History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/524\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeisajourney.co.nz\/src\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}