This Rimu Tree Was Given / As a Tribute to My Father
A plaque at Mona Vale, standing in Riccarton. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
This Rimu Tree was given / as a Tribute to my father, / MR TRACY T. GOUGH / from the men logging in New Zealand Bush. / My father said that these men / were some of the finest gentlemen he had met. / The Rimu Tree weeps, / but in maturity lifts its leaves to the light, / which is our heavenly Father. / Given by his Daughter, / Beryl, / May 1989
The register’s own frame
The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.
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 21
Mona Vale plaque, no. 72715
The Gazebo / This Gazebo Was Constructed in 1979
Years of Happy / Treasured Memories / Moira Bennett / Sept
To Commemorate / Jamie Gough'S / 21st Birthday 13-9-2005
In Loving Memory of / Betty Gee / 1918 - 2003
Mona Vale Rose Garden - Opened 1994
In Memory of / Sean J. Courtney & / Bernard T. Courtney
Thelma Sylvia / Mathias
13 more names stand on the same ground, the whole roll keeps them: /plaques.
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
191 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 141 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Facility - General Request
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Hazard, vehicle
Facility - General Request
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Roads - General
Park - General Request
Roads - GeneralQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Mona Vale in Riccarton, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.
The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the plaque. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
22 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2009. 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/72961-mona-vale.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.