Main North Road
64 reports at 19 addresses in Kainga, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 58 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 Main North Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Kainga.
From the air, then
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
- 1380 Main North Road, 21 reports
- 1320 Main North Road, 7 reports
- 1291 Main North Road, 7 reports
- 1230A Main North Road, 6 reports
- 1250 Main North Road, 4 reports
- 1330 Main North Road, 3 reports
- 1322-1328 Main North Road, 2 reports
- 1275 Main North Road, 2 reports
- 1230 Main North Road, 2 reports
- 1283 Main North Road, 1 report
- 1282 Main North Road, 1 report
- 1279 Main North Road, 1 report
- 1278 Main North Road, 1 report
- 1276 Main North Road, 1 report
- 1275B Main North Road, 1 report
- 1263 Main North Road, 1 report
- 1259 Main North Road, 1 report
- 1200 Main North Road, 1 report
- 1190 Main North Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Roads & footpaths, 26 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 18 reports
- Trees & parks, 9 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 9 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
Year by year
- 2017, 2 reports
- 2020, 5 reports
- 2021, 3 reports
- 2022, 14 reports
- 2023, 13 reports
- 2024, 13 reports
- 2025, 12 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 114 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Otago Daily Times, 20 January 1868)
· Papers Past,
…which is qtiitc level situated within threo and a half rnilc of moeraki port frontage to main north road is well sheltered with good aspect a bush within one mile of the homestead the improvements co…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The businesses on it, 1
Premises whose address in the directory is Main North Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
The named ground
Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Main North Road in 32 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 people killed, 9 seriously hurt.
The corner the record returns to: Main North Road & State Highway 74, 85 crashes pinned to the pairing.
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.
- The Akaroa Mail FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16. (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 16 November 1877) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Untitled (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 02 April 1878) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- NEWS OF THE MONTH. (Auckland Star, 01 March 1884) · Auckland Star,
- Untitled (Auckland Star, 27 June 1903) · Auckland Star,
- Untitled (Poverty Bay Herald, 21 September 1903) · Poverty Bay Herald,
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 11 December 1903) · Star,
- LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS. (Marlborough Express, 11 November 1904) · Marlborough Express,
- Untitled (Manawatu Times, 16 January 1905) · Manawatu Times,
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Wanganui Chronicle, 10 March 1905) · Wanganui Chronicle,
- NEW ZEALAND NEWS. (Nelson Evening Mail, 27 March 1907) · Nelson Evening Mail,
- PARS ABOUT PEOPLE (Observer, 21 March 1908) · Observer,
- WESTLAND MAORI NOMENCLATURE. (Grey River Argus, 18 June 1908) · Grey River Argus,
- Taranaki Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 25; 1908. THE STRATFORD-AUCKLAND RAILWAY CONNECTION. (Taranaki Herald, 25 June 1908) · Taranaki Herald,
- THE CRITIC. (NZ Truth, 01 August 1908) · NZ Truth,
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Feilding Star, 04 October 1909) · Feilding Star,
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 15 October 1909) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Mataura Ensign 1-11-1911) · Mataura Ensign,
- NEWS OF THE DAY (Evening Post, 24 November 1927) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 19 June 1941) · Evening Post,
- MAORI SETTLEMENTS (Ellesmere Guardian, 19 November 1943) · Ellesmere Guardian,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Dumped Rubbish, 1380 Main North Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 1380 Main North Road,
- Damaged Road, 1230A Main North Road,
- Damaged Road, 1230A Main North Road,
- Damaged Road, 1230A Main North Road,
- Damaged Road, 1230A Main North Road,
- Damaged Road, 1230A Main North Road,
- Damaged Road, 1320 Main North Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 1380 Main North Road,
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 1330 Main North Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1250 Main North Road,
- Abandoned Vehicle, 1279 Main North Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1330 Main North Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1230 Main North Road,
- Litter, 1291 Main North Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Kainga, Christchurch, New Zealand.
64 reports at 19 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (26), rubbish & dumping (18), trees & parks (9).
2017, the record covers 58 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Main North Road and State Highway 74, 85 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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