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Little Hagley Park plaque, no. 115802

A plaque at Little Hagley Park, standing in Christchurch Central. The surveyor filed its words as unknown.

The year
1998, the register’s commission
The register says
in service
The donor line
TREVOR DUNSTON

Where it stands

The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground’s other names

In the archive

A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.

The ground under it

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

The reports nearby

261 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Water & drains and Trees & parks, 200 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Water General 24 Dublin St · 9 October 2026
Trees - General Harper Ave · 24 September 2026
Facility - General Request Harper Ave · 23 August 2026
Water Leak 15 Dublin St · 22 August 2026
Water Leak 122–124 Park Tce · 19 August 2026
General Request 15 Dublin St · 18 August 2026
Pest / Vermin Park Tce near Bealey Ave, Christchurch Central City · 30 July 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Little Hagley Park in Christchurch Central, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The surveyor filed the inscription as "unknown", the weathering won, or nobody transcribed it. The plaque still earns its page: it stands, the ground is named, and the record’s pin is real.

Are there others at Little Hagley Park?

6 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 1998. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.

The record behind this

Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.

This page as markdown: /plaque/115802-little-hagley-park.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.