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Ruakaka Street

15 reports at 8 addresses in Hornby, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 15 separate days somebody filed something about it.

15 reports8 addresses15 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2713th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

21B Ruakaka Street, 3 reports1A Ruakaka Street, 3 reports18 Ruakaka Street, 3 reports2 Ruakaka Street, 2 reports21 Ruakaka Street, 1 report20 Ruakaka Street, 1 report12 Ruakaka Street, 1 report10 Ruakaka Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Ruakaka Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ruakaka Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ruakaka Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ruakaka 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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

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

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

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

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Ruakaka Street?

In Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ruakaka Street?

15 reports at 8 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (10), water & drains (2), rubbish & dumping (1).

When was Ruakaka Street first reported on?

2021, the record covers 15 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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