Niven Street
12 reports at 10 addresses in Avondale, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 12 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Niven Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Avondale.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The addresses on it
- 58 Niven Street, 2 reports
- 51 Niven Street, 2 reports
- 66 Niven Street, 1 report
- 59 Niven Street, 1 report
- 54 Niven Street, 1 report
- 34 Niven Street, 1 report
- 32 Niven Street, 1 report
- 2E Niven Street, 1 report
- 23 Niven Street, 1 report
- 1 Niven Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 3 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 3 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Trees & parks, 2 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
- Everything else, 1 report
Year by year
- 2015, 1 report
- 2017, 1 report
- 2018, 2 reports
- 2023, 3 reports
- 2024, 1 report
- 2025, 3 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From
· New Zealand Gazette,
…F LIMITED.NIDS INVESTMENTS LIMITED.NIGHTINGALE PROPERTIES LIMITED.NIVARA HOLDINGS LIMITED.NIVEN STREET CARS LIMITED.NIX BIX LIMITED.NIZAN CLUB LIMITED.NK ENTERPRISES COMPANY LIMITED.NKDIT RECRUITMENT…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The named ground
Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Niven Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
Its file in the papers
Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.
- THE GROCERS AND THE HALF-HOLIDAY. (Auckland Star, 21 November 1894) · Auckland Star,
- Untitled (Poverty Bay Herald, 03 September 1904) · Poverty Bay Herald,
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 December 1910) · Wairarapa Daily Times,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 31 December 1941) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 20 July 1942) · Evening Post,
- KILLED IN ACTION. (Evening Post, 29 July 1942) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 19 April 1945) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- General Request, 32 Niven Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 2E Niven Street,
- Street Light Outage, 66 Niven St,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 58 Niven Street,
- Fallen Tree, 58 Niven Street,
- Graffiti, 34 Niven Street,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 59 Niven Street,
- Pavement - Damaged, 54 Niven Street,
- Flooding, 51 Niven St,
- Wastewater/Stormwater, 51 Niven St,
- Graffiti, 1 Niven Street,
- Graffiti, 23 Niven St,
Questions, answered briefly
In Avondale, Christchurch, New Zealand.
12 reports at 10 addresses, most often water & drains (3), graffiti & vandalism (3), roads & footpaths (2).
2015, the record covers 12 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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