Dyers Pass Road

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Dyers Pass Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Marshland.

From the air, then

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The numbered spots

• 102 Dyers Pass Road, 1 report

What got reported

• Roads & footpaths, 1 report

Year by year

• 2024, 1 report

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name Dyers Pass Road, 50 in total; the 12 earliest:

• ARBOR DAY. (Star, 31 May 1906) · Papers Past · 31 May 1906
  …ue which arranged to celebrate arbor day to-day by planting some hundreds of trees on the dyers pass road was almost defeated in carrying out its object by the weather it had fixed ten oclock as the t…
• CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 10 August 1909) · Papers Past · 10 Aug 1909
  …rd had made a request for a contribution of 300 yards of broken metal towards reinstating dyers pass road which it was alleged had blen considerably damaged during the construction of the waterworks c…
• Sign of the Kiwi · Canterbury Stories · 1 Jan 1917
  Cardboard mounted photographs showing interior dining room of the Sign of the Kiwi on Dyers Pass Road. Photographs…
• Sign of the Kiwi · Canterbury Stories · 1 Jan 1917
  Cardboard mounted photographs showing interior dining room of the Sign of the Kiwi on Dyers Pass Road. Photographs…
• Sign of the Kiwi building: digital image · Picture Wairarapa · 1 Jan 1925
  Shows the Sign of the Kiwi building on Dyers Pass Road and Summit Road in Christchurch. Designed by&nbsp;<span style="color:#333333;font-family:arial…
• Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 27 November 1925) · Papers Past · 27 Nov 1925
  …too large for us to handle v x national mortgage agency co ltd leeston and southbridde i dyers pass road chrisichurch ft hackthorne road chch 30 mph pgmstjzjs a-e crensterrace timaru ysgr yi re stree…
• Aerial photomosaic of Dyers Pass Road and Bowenvale Avenue · Canterbury Stories · 1 Jan 1926
  Aerial photomosaic of Dyers Pass Road, Hackthorne Road, and Bowenvale Avenue. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
• Aerial photomosaic of Port Hills and Dyers Pass Road · Canterbury Stories · 1 Jan 1926
  Aerial photomosaic of Port Hills and Dyers Pass Road. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
• Aerial photomosaic of Summit Road and Dyers Pass Road · Canterbury Stories · 1 Jan 1926
  Aerial photomosaic of the Port Hills showing sections of Summit Road and Dyers Pass Road. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
• Aerial photomosaic of Dyers Pass Road and Summit Road · Canterbury Stories · 1 Jan 1926
  Aerial photomosaic of the Port Hills showing sections of Summit Road and Dyers Pass Road. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
• CLEVER CHILDREN (Evening Post, 24 December 1926) · Papers Past · 24 Dec 1926
  …race christchurch age 8 bell edna 109 cambridge terrace christchurch age 10 brown alan 12 dyers pass road cashmere age 13 henshaw henry lucas 99 springs road soekburn christchurch age is hollsacl mick…
• Dyers Pass and Sign of the Kiwi · Canterbury Stories · 1 Jan 1927
  View of Dyers Pass Road, with the Sign of the Kiwi visible on the right. Photographs…

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

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street, relayed, not verified.

• Police name cyclist killed in Dyers Pass Road crash, seek footage, The news · Chris Lynch Media, 11 Oct 2026
• Fatal Crash Closes Dyers Pass Road Near Christchurch, The news · Mirage News, 9 Oct 2026
• Cyclist dies in crash on Dyers Pass Road, The news · Chris Lynch Media, 9 Oct 2026
• Emergency services respond to crash involving cyclist on Dyers Pass Road, The news · Chris Lynch Media, 9 Oct 2026
• So with the new law change we are to always give cyclists 1.5m plus when passing them. Normally this is fine. But there's one situation where I'm a bit unsure what best practice is: Dyers Pass Road…, r/chch · Special-Drama-6090, 1 Oct 2026

As it was reported

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Latest on record

• Road Signage at 102 Dyers Pass Road, 14 Aug 2024