Wairoa Street
7 reports at 2 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2025, the latest 2026. 7 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 Wairoa Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is New Brighton.
From the air, then
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
- 29F Wairoa Street, 6 reports
- 31 Wairoa Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 3 reports
- Everything else, 2 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
- Animals & pests, 1 report
Year by year
- 2025, 4 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 27 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:
- Poverty Bay Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1904 (Poverty Bay Herald, 13 August 1904)
· Papers Past,
…tendance to witness the piece 1 which is sure to be capably interpreted a press wine from wairoa states that mrs moloney an old settler who ha resided for 31 jears iv the district wife t of mr w molon…
- Page 7 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 23 November 1907)
· Papers Past,
…1591 for sale convenient modem 7-roomd house ranfurly street owner leaving bedtock price wairoa star office 1537 or sale lady humber tricycle nearly new also beautiful chest of drawers inlaid wood ap…
- Untitled (Poverty Bay Herald, 05 August 1911)
· Papers Past,
…ank of australasia at gisborne had a rather unusual experience on his return journey from wairoa states the guar ian when within a few miles of gisborne his horse a beautiful animal much admired m thi…
- TO-DAY'S HEAVY LIST (Evening Post, 27 July 1916)
· Papers Past,
…naki mother shaw l j l-cpl jessie i shaw thames sister smith f a mrs w t smith mititai nj wairoa stocks w rflmn e a stocks amberley north canterbui-j brother tims f s v rflmn mrs e tims new brighton c…
- WELLINGTON RECRUITING DISTRICT (No. 5) (Evening Post, 13 February 1917)
· Papers Past,
…laxmill hand shannon smith w brickmaker shannon soler r l f farmer marton spry e labourer wairoa staples p g slaughterman clinton house petono steele g pastrycook palmerston n stevens r farm labourer…
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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
7 reports at 2 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (3), everything else (2), graffiti & vandalism (1).
2025, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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