Waiwetu Street

55 reports at 25 addresses in Fendalton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 53 separate days somebody filed something about it.

55 reports 25 addresses53 days reported onfrom the air, then 4 documents carry the namethe 1236th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Waiwetu Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Fendalton.

From the air, then

Waiwetu Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Waiwetu Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Waiwetu Street 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

53 Waiwetu Street, 13 reports
39 Waiwetu Street, 6 reports
26B Waiwetu Street, 4 reports
40 Waiwetu Street, 3 reports
33 Waiwetu Street, 3 reports
38 Waiwetu Street, 2 reports
37 Waiwetu Street, 2 reports
35A Waiwetu Street, 2 reports
33A Waiwetu Street, 2 reports
21 Waiwetu Street, 2 reports
19A Waiwetu Street, 2 reports
7 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
51 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
50-48 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
50 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
5 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
43 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
4 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
35 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
29 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
23 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
17 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
15 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
12 Waiwetu Street, 1 report
11 Waiwetu Street, 1 report

What got reported

Water & drains, 25 reports
Roads & footpaths, 13 reports
Trees & parks, 6 reports
Vehicles & parking, 5 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 5 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report

Year by year

2016, 1 report
2018, 2 reports
2019, 1 report
2020, 1 report
2021, 4 reports
2022, 6 reports
2023, 11 reports
2024, 10 reports
2025, 6 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Evening Post, 15 July 1929) · Papers Past, 15 Jul 1929
…ed price 1400 andrews and roberts next evg post lower hutt burnside estate near beautiful waiwetu stream new bungalow 5 rooms and kitchenette good design price 1450 would accept section as part deposi…
N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 31 July 1942) · Papers Past, 31 Jul 1942
…8 hastings f died of woundspreviously reported wounded byrne william j bdr mrs a byrne 15 waiwetu street christchurch m cullen gavin w pte mr g cullen 46 forth street mataura f hansard epa pte mrs m h…
List of Independent Marriage and Civil Union Celebrants · New Zealand Gazette, 18 Dec 2013
…yleston M Gibson, Judith, 284 Tauraroa Road, Maungakaramea, Whangarei M Gibson, Meri, 30A Waiwetu Street, Fendalton, Christchurch M Gibson, Peter Bell, 12 Trevelyan Street, Onekawa, Napier M Giddey, L…
List of Independent Marriage and Civil Union Celebrants · New Zealand Gazette, 16 Dec 2015
…oad, Maungakaramea M CU Gibson, Jenni Anne, 6 Queen Street, Doyleston M Gibson, Meri, 30A Waiwetu Street, Fendalton, Christchurch M Giddey, Laura Elizabeth, 6A Baird Street, Howick, Auckland M CU Giff…

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.

Wairarapa Stream stream · 1 m away Jeffreys Reserve footbridge · 5 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Waiwetu Street in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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.