Johns Road
6 reports at 2 addresses in Coutts Island, the first in 2017, the latest 2025. 6 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 Johns Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Coutts Island.
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
- 160 Johns Road, 5 reports
- 130R Johns Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Trees & parks, 5 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2017, 1 report
- 2018, 1 report
- 2024, 3 reports
- 2025, 1 report
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 45 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 25 February 1899)
· Papers Past,
…alf in acre a reflllycbp barm apply baggs aid co 131 colombo street christchurch for sale johns road iinwopd house of 5 rooms outbuildings and vinery q acre well planted with frmt trees price apply ba…
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 18 March 1899)
· Papers Past,
…tion for building sites cheap apply baggs and co 131 colombo street chfistohurch for sale johns road linwood house of j rooms outbuildings aad vinery quarter acre well planted with fruit trees price 3…
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 01 April 1899)
· Papers Past,
…ons for building sites cheap apply baggs and co 131 colombo street christchurcli por salo johns road linwood houseof 5 t rooms outbuildings and vinery quarter acre well planted with fruit trees price…
- Heslington General Store
· Canterbury Stories,
Exterior of Heslington General Store on the corner of North Road and Johns Road in the Heslington township. Outside the store is a family. Local scenes and places…
- THE ALLEGED HORSE FIEND. (Star, 16 September 1902)
· Papers Past,
…road and about three oclock on the afternoon of august 23 he was seen riding a bicycle on johns road near the north road he was seen in various places in the neighbourhood of jenkins house and plans o…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 27 May 1909)
· Papers Past,
…t once to claude brown hair dresser and tobacconist addington 4294 eost riding boot neafc johns road belfast reward on leaving at star office 4287 umnerv-to let 4-roomed house fur nished for 2 months…
- Devonvale Dairy Farm
· Canterbury Stories,
…arm with horses and drays collecting milk to be transported to the main bottling dairy in Johns Road. Devonvale Dairy…
- Devonvale Dairy Farm
· Canterbury Stories,
…arm with horses and drays collecting milk to be transported to the main bottling dairy in Johns Road. Devonvale Dairy…
- House on Johns Road, Belfast
· Canterbury Stories,
Exterior of a two storey house on Johns Road, west of Connemara Drive in Belfast. Local scenes and places…
- Aerial view of Belfast east
· Canterbury Stories,
Aerial view looking east over Belfast with the intersection of Johns Road and North Road in the centre. Local scenes and places…
- LIST OF
· New Zealand Gazette,
…C/- Bennett Rolle Limited, P.O. Box 356, Christchurch 14-Jan-88Campion, Richard David 561 Johns Road, Harewood, Christchurch 15-Mar-83Chamberlain, Donald Glenmore P.O. Box 203, Christchurch 11-Apr-85C…
- REGISTER
· New Zealand Gazette,
…rmacy Limited 54 Arawa Street, MATAMATA Meadowbank Pharmacy 1988 Limited Shop 2, 35-47 St Johns Road, Meadowbank, AUCKLAND Meadowlands Pharmacy Limited Meadowlands Shopping Plaza, Cnr Meadowlands Driv…
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 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.
- JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 22 October 1853) · Lyttelton Times,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 02 January 1858) · Lyttelton Times,
- Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 10 February 1858) · Lyttelton Times,
- JURY LIST FOR 1860. (Lyttelton Times, 19 May 1860) · Lyttelton Times,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 06 June 1860) · Lyttelton Times,
- RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (Lyttelton Times, 21 November 1860) · Lyttelton Times,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 16 April 1862) · Lyttelton Times,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 19 April 1862) · Lyttelton Times,
- TELEGRAMS. (Grey River Argus, 03 April 1883) · Grey River Argus,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Ashburton Guardian, 31 December 1887) · Ashburton Guardian,
- ACCIDENTS & DEATHS. (Ashburton Guardian, 25 April 1912) · Ashburton Guardian,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 06 September 1915) · Evening Post,
- DEATHS. (Evening Post, 20 November 1918) · Evening Post,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 7 (Evening Post, 06 July 1922) · Evening Post,
- Page 12 Advertisements Column 7 (Evening Post, 07 July 1922) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 27 February 1933) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 16 August 1937) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 10 December 1941) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. HONOURS (Evening Post, 11 May 1943) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 12 June 1943) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Coutts Island, Christchurch, New Zealand.
6 reports at 2 addresses, most often trees & parks (5), graffiti & vandalism (1).
2017, the record covers 6 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.
Johns Road and Sawyers Arms Road, 67 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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