Wairarapa Terrace
73 reports at 33 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 64 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 Wairarapa Terrace, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Merivale.
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
- 42 Wairarapa Terrace, 7 reports
- 45 Wairarapa Terrace, 6 reports
- 26A Wairarapa Terrace, 6 reports
- 94 Wairarapa Terrace, 5 reports
- 2 Wairarapa Terrace, 5 reports
- 86 Wairarapa Terrace, 3 reports
- 60 Wairarapa Terrace, 3 reports
- 50 Wairarapa Terrace, 3 reports
- 44A Wairarapa Terrace, 3 reports
- 4 Wairarapa Terrace, 3 reports
- 25A Wairarapa Terrace, 3 reports
- 78 Wairarapa Terrace, 2 reports
- 54 Wairarapa Terrace, 2 reports
- 34 Wairarapa Terrace, 2 reports
- 125a Wairarapa Terrace, 2 reports
- 90 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 84 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 82 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 72 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 6 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 58 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 56 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 37A Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 33 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 32 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 31D Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 31 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 23 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 17A Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 17 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 15 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 125c Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
- 12 Wairarapa Terrace, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 18 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 15 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 13 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 11 reports
- Trees & parks, 10 reports
- Everything else, 5 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
Year by year
- 2015, 2 reports
- 2017, 3 reports
- 2018, 4 reports
- 2019, 5 reports
- 2022, 7 reports
- 2023, 16 reports
- 2024, 9 reports
- 2025, 15 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 7 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 30 January 1907)
· Papers Past,
…fice 1652 wanted cook and housemaid for the country apply to mrs fulton mid lothian house wairarapa terrace eff office road st albans 550 nted buyers furniture etc call at crown auction rooms cheapest…
- Page 7 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 03 April 1909)
· Papers Past,
…etc gardiner apiarist ric carton 2944 or sale white leghorn roosters pure bred 4s lindum wairarapa terrace road fendalton 2949 for sale triumph motor nearly new cheap ill-health sole reason for selli…
- DRAINAGE BOARD. (Star, 22 September 1909)
· Papers Past,
…nt ten owners of property bounded by boundary road leinster road the wairarapa stream and wairarapa terrace petitioned to be included in the sewerage area from which they stated they had been unaccoun…
- T. J. C Wilkins and friends
· Canterbury Stories,
My grandfather (Thomas Jacques Cuthbert Wilkins) with friends outside 7 Wairarapa Terrace. 2022 Photo Hunt…
- LUCKY SURPRISE" (Evening Post, 07 February 1934)
· Papers Past,
…b 36 bay view road south dunedin k79471 miss e hazledean dobson 823134 still boxing on 72 wairarapa terrace christchurch m 99370 joe black box 153 gisborne l 35213 385 hangatiki auckland k7ooco ronald…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The named ground
Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; 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 Wairarapa Terrace in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
- FOOTBALL. (Evening Post, 28 August 1885) · Evening Post,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 20 September 1901) · Star,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 13 March 1902) · Star,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 12 July 1902) · Star,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 04 October 1902) · Star,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 15 November 1902) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 03 July 1903) · Star,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 09 May 1908) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 22 April 1909) · Star,
- WOMEN IN PRINT (Evening Post, 06 April 1921) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 13 August 1930) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 27 March 1933) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 05 April 1934) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 29 July 1935) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 08 January 1936) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 25 August 1938) · Evening Post,
- WELL-KNOWN. GOLFERS (Evening Post, 27 April 1939) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 03 November 1939) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 30 January 1940) · Evening Post,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 03 August 1940) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Damaged Street Sign, 2 Wairarapa Terrace,
- Pavement - General, 17A Wairarapa Terrace,
- Water General, 26A Wairarapa Terrace,
- Pavement - Damaged, 4 Wairarapa Tce,
- Damaged Street Light, 4 Wairarapa Tce,
- Dumped Rubbish, 60 Wairarapa Tce,
- Water Leak, 26A Wairarapa Tce,
- Dumped Rubbish, 50 Wairarapa Tce,
- Dumped Rubbish, 50 Wairarapa Tce,
- Dumped Rubbish, 50 Wairarapa Tce,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 60 Wairarapa Tce,
- Damaged Street Sign, 45 Wairarapa Terrace,
- Water Leak, 26A Wairarapa Terrace,
- Pavement - Damaged, 4 Wairarapa Tce,
- General Request, 60 Wairarapa Tce,
Questions, answered briefly
In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.
73 reports at 33 addresses, most often water & drains (18), roads & footpaths (15), rubbish & dumping (13).
2015, the record covers 64 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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