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Rawhiti Avenue

79 reports at 11 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 61 separate days somebody filed something about it.

79 reports11 addresses61 days reported onfrom the air, then10 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 1093rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

19 Rawhiti Avenue, 20 reports9 Rawhiti Avenue, 19 reports10 Rawhiti Avenue, 16 reports15 Rawhiti Avenue, 8 reports20 Rawhiti Avenue, 6 reports8 Rawhiti Avenue, 4 reports17 Rawhiti Avenue, 2 reports6A Rawhiti Avenue, 1 report18 Rawhiti Avenue, 1 report15-19 Rawhiti Avenue, 1 report14 Rawhiti Avenue, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Rawhiti Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is New Brighton.

From the air, then

Rawhiti Avenue from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Rawhiti Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rawhiti Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rawhiti Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rawhiti Avenue from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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 →

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Rawhiti Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

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 Rawhiti Avenue in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rawhiti Avenue?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rawhiti Avenue?

79 reports at 11 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (31), trees & parks (20), rubbish & dumping (8).

When was Rawhiti Avenue first reported on?

2016, the record covers 61 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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