Fair Place
6 reports at 3 addresses in Hoon Hay, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 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 Fair Place, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Hoon Hay.
From the air, then
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
- 8 Fair Place, 4 reports
- 7 Fair Place, 1 report
- 10 Fair Place, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 5 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
Year by year
- 2019, 1 report
- 2023, 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 6 earliest:
- Local Intelligence. (Lyttelton Times, 01 July 1857)
· Papers Past,
…not finished and they have improved the occasion let its advocates have in the spirit of fair play an opportunity of proving its use as a ioad when it is finished and then we shall have facts on both…
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Timaru Herald, 23 March 1866)
· Papers Past,
…not the finest there is at least is one of the best and there are some very good and many fair players m christchurch nearly every city of any consequence boasts of a chess club and canterbury does no…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 17 December 1869)
· Papers Past,
…1 johnm-donald i chas olivier 1 john percy 1 friend 1 rdavis 1 a stupid 1 robt bitgrove 1 fair play 1 w littlecott 1 true blue w lissaman 1 professor 1 albion i you know me 1 mitre hotel 1 j carder 1…
- Local and General. (Star, 15 December 1870)
· Papers Past,
…ur of hearing the explanations which mr yogel was desirous of giving and of according him fair play and an impartial hearing we therefore request your worship to convey this assurance to mr yogel and…
- News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 03 May 1873)
· Papers Past,
…g in communities where it is reasonable to presume there continues to exist some sense of fair play if there does not exist the disposition to cow-hide the persistent propagator of libel it seems to b…
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 14 November 1874)
· Papers Past,
…as drunk yet obrien had gone to fight him in a place where there were no witnesses to see fair play fighting was a very savage element in society and must be put down prisoner would be imprisoned for…
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As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Hoon Hay, Christchurch, New Zealand.
6 reports at 3 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (5), rubbish & dumping (1).
2019, the record covers 6 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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