Centaurus Road

199 reports at 56 addresses in Hillsborough, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 175 separate days somebody filed something about it.

199 reports 56 addresses175 days reported onfrom the air, then 27 documents carry the namethe 362nd 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 Centaurus Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Hillsborough.

From the air, then

Centaurus Road from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

Centaurus Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Centaurus Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Centaurus Road from the air, 1975-1979 — **1975-1979** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

Water & drains, 61 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 41 reports
Trees & parks, 38 reports
Roads & footpaths, 32 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 15 reports
Vehicles & parking, 4 reports
Everything else, 4 reports
Animals & pests, 4 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 2 reports
2017, 4 reports
2018, 6 reports
2019, 10 reports
2020, 10 reports
2021, 8 reports
2022, 24 reports
2023, 22 reports
2024, 29 reports
2025, 47 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 27 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Fire escape from top floor; Road past Hospital gates · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1913
…of photograph album 1. Left: Fire escape from top floor. Right: Road past hospital gates, Centaurus Road. Photograph album…
View from Cashmere Sanatorium hill · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1913
…ver nearby farms and Beckenham with Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana in background. Centaurus Road and Birdwood Avenue in view. Cashmere Sanatorium album and photographs, 1913-1933…
Looking over Fisherton and Beckenham from Sanatorium · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1918
…don, taken from the Cashmere Sanatorium grounds. The chimneys belong to the Brickworks on Centaurus Road. Cashmere Sanatorium album and photographs, 1913-1933…
Cashmere Sanatorium · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
…tion Hospital and Cashmere Sanatorium viewed from bottom of hill with Heathcote River and Centaurus Road in foreground. Cashmere Sanatorium album and photographs, 1913-1933…
Coronation Hospital and Cashmere Sanatorium · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
Coronation Hospital and Cashmere Sanatorium viewed from bottom of hill with Centaurus Road in foreground. Cashmere Sanatorium album and photographs, 1913-1933…
Aerial photomosaic of Huntsbury and Hillsborough · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1926
Aerial photomosaic of Huntsbury, Wilsons Road, Centaurus Road, and Aynsley Terrace. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
Cashmere Sanatorium and Coronation Hospital complex · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1930
…atorium and Coronation Hospital complex including the Fresh Air Home and Open Air School. Centaurus Road in foreground. Cashmere Sanatorium album and photographs, 1913-1933…
Murphy Bros Staff Photo · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1940
"This photo was taken on Centaurus Road, and used to be opposite where The Brickworks restaurant in Centaurus Road is. It features my g…
Cashmere Sanatorium and Coronation Hospital · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1940
…ion Hospital complex including the Upper Sanatorium, Fresh Air Home, and Open Air School. Centaurus Road in foreground. Cashmere Sanatorium album and photographs, 1913-1933…
Former substation at Murphy's Brickworks · Canterbury Stories, 10 Jun 1940
View of a Municipal Electricity Department former substation at Murphy's Brickworks on Centaurus Road in Huntsbury. MED Historical Photographs…
COURT'S WARNING (Evening Post, 30 November 1940) · Papers Past, 30 Nov 1940
…ective-sergeant j mcclung who explained that the men took a motor-cycle valued at 70 from centaurus road cashmere they had an accident and damaged it to the extent of 2 it is very common for cars to b…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 25 June 1941) · Papers Past, 25 Jun 1941
…d harry spr mrs i j baft maunu road whangarei m galyefi neil studley spr mrs m galyer 17s centaurus road st martins christenurch m gosse phillip edmund spr mr gosse 87 sar street wellington f king vin…

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.