"Read letter dated 19th ult., from Mr. John Hawthorne, agent on behalf of owners of property in new Street between Bloomfield Road and Beersbridge Road asking to have that thoroughfore named Sagimor" Gardens, and it was resolved that the application be granted". (5th March 1918).
The earliest newspaper reference to Sagimore Gardens was in the Northern Whig on Friday 05 April 1918 in the form of an advertisement for four "semi-detached cottage residences" in Sagimor Gardens. The minutes of 8th January 1918 of the Improvement Committee indicate that the committee had rejected the request of Mr John Hawthorne of 59 Chichester Street for a new street between Beersbridge Road and Bloomfield Road and requested him to submit another name hence his request for the street to be named Sagimor Gardens. "Read letter, dated 19th ult. from Mr. John D. Hawthorne relative to the erection of street name plate "Sagimor Gardens" in new street between Beersbridge Road and Bloomfield Road and the surveyor was instructed to have the street name erected as soon as convenient.