Oleary Street
36 reports at 19 addresses in Hoon Hay, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 35 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 Oleary Street, 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
- 12 Oleary Street, 7 reports
- 19 Oleary Street, 5 reports
- 5 Oleary Street, 3 reports
- 24 Oleary Street, 3 reports
- 22 Oleary Street, 3 reports
- 17 Oleary Street, 2 reports
- 9 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 8 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 7-23 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 7 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 6 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 36 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 34 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 28 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 21 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 16 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 14 Oleary Street, 1 report
- 14 O'leary Street, 1 report
- 14 O'Leary Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 17 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 8 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 6 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 4 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
Year by year
- 2020, 2 reports
- 2022, 2 reports
- 2023, 9 reports
- 2024, 8 reports
- 2025, 4 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 09 February 1883)
· Papers Past,
…d joseph symington gave corroborative evidence as to his paying prisoner 316 6d constable oleary stationed at duntroun in oamaru district stated that he had arrosted prisoner on feb 6at kurow prisoner…
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 October 1918)
· Papers Past,
…admitted that he had bought tho fruit for the purpose of throwing it on election night mr oleary stated that it was a boyish escapade and the accused was unfortunate in being caught the magistrate in…
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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Oleary Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 12 Oleary Street,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 12 Oleary Street,
- Roads - General, 22 Oleary Street,
- Water Leak, 19 Oleary Street,
- Flooding, 19 Oleary Street,
- Litter, 12 Oleary Street,
- Street Cleaning, 6 Oleary Street,
- Pavement - General, 19 Oleary Street,
- Water Leak, 19 Oleary Street,
- Water Leak, 17 Oleary Street,
- Water Leak, 21 Oleary Street,
- Water Leak, 12 Oleary Street,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 5 Oleary Street,
- Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 14 Oleary Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 5 Oleary Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Hoon Hay, Christchurch, New Zealand.
36 reports at 19 addresses, most often water & drains (17), graffiti & vandalism (8), rubbish & dumping (6).
2020, the record covers 35 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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