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Moa Place

28 reports at 10 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 27 separate days somebody filed something about it.

28 reports10 addresses27 days reported onfrom the air, then32 documents carry the namethe 1975th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

15 Moa Place, 6 reports5 Moa Place, 4 reports6 Moa Place, 3 reports2 Moa Place, 3 reports17 Moa Place, 3 reports14 Moa Place, 3 reports7 Moa Place, 2 reports12 Moa Place, 2 reports8 Moa Place, 1 report6–14 Moa Place, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Moa Place, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Christchurch Central City.

From the air, then

Moa Place from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Moa Place from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Moa Place from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Moa Place from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 32 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Moa Place?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Moa Place?

28 reports at 10 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (8), trees & parks (6), graffiti & vandalism (5).

When was Moa Place first reported on?

2016, the record covers 27 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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