Aikmans Road

214 reports at 63 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 181 separate days somebody filed something about it.

214 reports 63 addresses181 days reported onfrom the air, then 12 documents carry the name 9 businessesthe 339th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Aikmans Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Aikmans Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Aikmans Road 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

129 Aikmans Road, 49 reports
95 Aikmans Road, 8 reports
125 Aikmans Road, 8 reports
29 Aikmans Road, 7 reports
150 Aikmans Road, 7 reports
137 Aikmans Road, 7 reports
133A Aikmans Road, 7 reports
91 Aikmans Road, 6 reports
64 Aikmans Road, 6 reports
25 Aikmans Road, 6 reports
154 Aikmans Road, 6 reports
87 Aikmans Road, 5 reports
56 Aikmans Road, 5 reports
54 Aikmans Road, 5 reports
23 Aikmans Road, 5 reports
102 Aikmans Road, 5 reports
98 Aikmans Road, 4 reports
91A Aikmans Road, 4 reports
99 Aikmans Road, 3 reports
92B Aikmans Road, 3 reports
33 Aikmans Road, 3 reports
20 Aikmans Road, 3 reports
119 Aikmans Road, 3 reports
72A Aikmans Road, 2 reports
55 Aikmans Road, 2 reports
34B Aikmans Road, 2 reports
30 Aikmans Road, 2 reports
27-69 Aikmans Road, 2 reports
27 Aikmans Road, 2 reports
143 Aikmans Road, 2 reports
116 Aikmans Road, 2 reports
114 Aikmans Road, 2 reports
92b Aikmans Road, 1 report
92A Aikmans Road, 1 report
90 Aikmans Road, 1 report
87A Aikmans Road, 1 report
79 Aikmans Road, 1 report
76 Aikmans Road, 1 report
75B Aikmans Road, 1 report
72 Aikmans Road, 1 report
71 Aikmans Road, 1 report
69-71 Aikmans Road, 1 report
69 Aikmans Road, 1 report
66 Aikmans Road, 1 report
60 Aikmans Road, 1 report
48 Aikmans Road, 1 report
46 Aikmans Road, 1 report
40 Aikmans Road, 1 report
38 Aikmans Road, 1 report
34 Aikmans Road, 1 report
24 Aikmans Road, 1 report
21 Aikmans Road, 1 report
18 Aikmans Road, 1 report
15 Aikmans Road, 1 report
138 Aikmans Road, 1 report
135 Aikmans Road, 1 report
133 Aikmans Road, 1 report
128 Aikmans Road, 1 report
121 Aikmans Road, 1 report
111 Aikmans Road, 1 report

and the other 3 the record names

105 Aikmans Road, 1 report
103 Aikmans Road, 1 report
101 Aikmans Road, 1 report

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 63 reports
Roads & footpaths, 48 reports
Water & drains, 39 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 30 reports
Everything else, 12 reports
Vehicles & parking, 11 reports
Trees & parks, 11 reports

Year by year

2015, 3 reports
2016, 5 reports
2017, 8 reports
2019, 5 reports
2020, 4 reports
2021, 5 reports
2022, 37 reports
2023, 56 reports
2024, 34 reports
2025, 34 reports

In the written record

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

Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 20 June 1908) · Papers Past, 20 Jun 1908
…orthern sydenham n iihe railway station house of 0 rooma and well fenced section only 290 aikmans road weii-built house con taining 6 rooms scullery washhouse over long frontage in first-clas order 45…
WWI gas mask and army uniform · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1919
…of the Pearce family wearing a WWI gas mask and army uniform at the Pearce family home in Aikmans Road, Merivale. 2013 Photo Hunt…
Elmwood Normal School War Memorial · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
The war memorial in Elmwood Normal School, located at 29 Aikmans Road, showing the names of the former pupils that served in World War One. William Trethewey papers…
WOMEN IN PRINT. (Evening Post, 02 September 1921) · Papers Past, 2 Sept 1921
…erian church on wednesday mr jnstic-e herdman was married to mrs alice elizabeth brown of aikmans road morivale christchiwou the rev john paitcsrson officiated mr justice ilerdmain let later for the w…
DEATHS. (Evening Post, 06 June 1925) · Papers Past, 6 Jun 1925
…lam tory street he gives his beloved sleep bateson the sth june 1025 at his residence 02 aikmans road merivale christchurch john hayes for many year 3 chief lnspeetin engineer-to themines-department…
DEATHS. (Evening Post, 05 September 1938) · Papers Past, 5 Sept 1938
…father of valda vera and vernon loved by all willson september 3 1938 at his residence 98 aikmans road merivale christchurch lyall john beloved husband of alma wills aged 43 years at rest…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 21 May 1941) · Papers Past, 21 May 1941
…t john street opotiki f wounded second-lieutenant cyril george alastair sams mr k sams 44 aikmans road christchurch bnwi f second-lieutenant francis trewby mrs m j trewby bank street mangaweka m priva…
FIRST LIST (Evening Post, 18 December 1941) · Papers Past, 18 Dec 1941
…rs p g guest 90 queen street dunedin w hadfield frederick allan pte mrs a m g hadneld 120 aikmans road merivale m hancock lan summers pte mrs g hancock penrlth street lawrence in hani leslie pte mr j…
N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 16 July 1942) · Papers Past, 16 Jul 1942
…rs denby 16 edgequmbe road tauranga m hapfielp frederick allan pte mrs a m g hadfield 120 aikmans road papanui m bakaraia rewlrl pte mrs r hakarala ravhltl m barowick william lcpl mrs a wood watwk j h…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 November 1943) · Papers Past, 2 Nov 1943
…mrs d e flaws drembem shenn ruatorla w hutchinson william j 8 lieut mrs a m hutchinson 72 aikmans road christchurch w lendrum jack lieut mrs p a lendrum 25 lingarth street remuera w biddle even w e pt…
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register · New Zealand Gazette, 19 Apr 2012
…MITED.AGRIPETA HOLDINGS LIMITED.AH-HI LUSH LASHES LIMITED.AHIPARADISE ENTERPRISES LIMITED.AIKMANS ROAD LIMITED.AIMDATA EBUSINESS LIMITED.AIR EXTREME HVAC LIMITED.AIR HOLDINGS LIMITED.AJA LIMITED.AJA P…
Notice of Intention to Restore Companies to the Register · New Zealand Gazette, 27 Jul 2017
…oldcoast, Queensland 4218, Australia. PROPERTY EXPERTS LIMITED. Applicant: Matt Power, 16 Aikmans Road, Merivale, Christchurch 8014. QUEENSTOWN HORSE TREKS LIMITED. Applicant: Barbara Verlinden, 200 S…

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

Elmwood Normal School, Contributing · decile 10 · EQI 376 · roll 564

The businesses on it, 9

Premises whose address in the directory is Aikmans 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Saint Albans Creek stream · 114 m away Merivale Reserve shelter · 148 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Aikmans Road in 19 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Aikmans Road & Papanui Road, 33 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

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.