# This Olive Tree Was Planted on / 20th May 1984, a plaque of Cashmere A plaque of the city, standing at Elizabeth Park in Cashmere, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate. ## The words it carries > THIS OLIVE TREE WAS PLANTED ON / 20th MAY 1984 / TO COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF CRETE / WHICH BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1941 / N.Z. CRETE VETERANS ASSOCIATION / (CANTERBURY BRANCH) The surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as read off the plaque. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record. - The ground: [Elizabeth Park](https://www.chch.live/park/931-elizabeth-park), the park it stands on - The suburb: [Cashmere](https://www.chch.live/cashmere) - The year the register carries: 1998 - Rides on: other - Status: in service The register’s photograph: https://gis.ccc.govt.nz/Image/ManMade/ParkAsset/20100526/00377/R0079073.jpg ## In the archive - [Documents naming This Olive Tree Was Planted on / 20th May 1984](https://www.chch.live/documents?q=This%20Olive%20Tree%20Was%20Planted%20on%20%2F%2020th%20May%201984) - [The record’s own search for it](https://www.chch.live/search?q=This%20Olive%20Tree%20Was%20Planted%20on%20%2F%2020th%20May%201984) - [Elizabeth Park](https://www.chch.live/park/931-elizabeth-park), the ground’s own page - [Cashmere](https://www.chch.live/cashmere), the suburb it stands in A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts. ## The ground under it - [Under the hill country’s watch band](https://www.chch.live/slope), the plan’s broad instability overlay - [The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Unlikely”](https://www.chch.live/vulnerability), the 2019 screening study - [Inside a kept landscape, ONL38.2 - Outstanding Natural Landscape](https://www.chch.live/landscape), the landscape schedule - [The plan zones this ground Open Space Natural](https://www.chch.live/zones), ON - [The rockfall survey counts 9 boulders within 500 m](https://www.chch.live/boulders), 0 came down · 1 wobbles easy - [The nearest recorded shake: M3.6](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 24 September 2011 · under 150 m from the pin · 609 logged within 5 km The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.58289&lon=172.63739&radius=250 ## Around it - [Elizabeth Park](https://www.chch.live/park/931-elizabeth-park), the regional park it’s inside - [Longhurst Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1772-longhurst-reserve), community park · ~200 m - [Walk and bike track through Cashmere](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-531-cashmere), track · ~700 m - [Planted on 21st February 1998 / by John William Jameson](https://www.chch.live/plaque/112575-cracroft-reserve), plaque · ~250 m - [Cracroft Reserve plaque](https://www.chch.live/plaque/112574-cracroft-reserve), plaque · ~250 m - [This Gingko and Bench Are Donated by Family, Friends](https://www.chch.live/plaque/33386-cracroft-reserve), plaque · ~250 m - [In Memoriam the Erie Munro Playground 1934](https://www.chch.live/plaque/33269-cracroft-reserve), plaque · ~450 m ## The reports nearby 225 reports pinned within 250 m of the point, a pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place. - [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/9053445), [2 Pentre Terrace, Cashmere, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/2-pentre-terrace) - [Damaged Street Sign](https://www.chch.live/report/9004233), [199 Hackthorne Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/199-hackthorne-road) - [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/8790988), [1 Pentre Terrace, Cashmere, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/1-pentre-terrace) - [Hazard, vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/8685250), [11 Victoria Park Road, Cashmere, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/11-victoria-park-road) - [Overgrown Vegetation](https://www.chch.live/report/8621005), [180 Dyers Pass Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/180-dyers-pass-road) - [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/8539075), [21 Amherst Place, Cashmere, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/21-amherst-place) - [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/8386738), [1 Pentre Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/1-pentre-terrace) - [Overgrown Vegetation](https://www.chch.live/report/8386233), [180 Dyers Pass Rd, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/180-dyers-pass-road) - [Hazard, vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/8321292), [33 Longhurst Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/33-longhurst-terrace) - [Hazard, vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/8280229), [35 Longhurst Tce, Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/35-longhurst-terrace) - [Public Toilet](https://www.chch.live/report/8263672), [199 Hackthorne Road, Cashmere, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/cashmere/199-hackthorne-road) - [Abandoned Vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/8161752), Canterbury, Christchurch 8022, New Zealand ## Questions, answered briefly **What is this?** A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Elizabeth Park in [Cashmere](https://www.chch.live/cashmere), one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate. **What does it say?** The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the other. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record. **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. --- Christchurch City Council 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. The pin is the record’s position. The roll: https://www.chch.live/plaques · the record as data: https://www.chch.live/plaques.json · this plaque’s page: https://www.chch.live/plaque/84766-elizabeth-park