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Morrison Avenue

109 reports at 37 addresses in Northcote, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 94 separate days somebody filed something about it.

109 reports37 addresses94 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 741st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

28 Morrison Avenue, 12 reports1F Morrison Avenue, 10 reports1D Morrison Avenue, 10 reports26 Morrison Avenue, 9 reports24 Morrison Avenue, 6 reports23A Morrison Avenue, 6 reports60 Morrison Avenue, 5 reports1 Morrison Avenue, 5 reports47 Morrison Avenue, 4 reports32 Morrison Avenue, 3 reports1B Morrison Avenue, 3 reports1A Morrison Avenue, 3 reports58 Morrison Avenue, 2 reports53 Morrison Avenue, 2 reports51 Morrison Avenue, 2 reports40 Morrison Avenue, 2 reports36 Morrison Avenue, 2 reports34 Morrison Avenue, 2 reports30 Morrison Avenue, 2 reports1e Morrison Avenue, 2 reports7 Morrison Avenue, 1 report52 Morrison Avenue, 1 report51-57 Morrison Avenue, 1 report4C Morrison Avenue, 1 report43 Morrison Avenue, 1 report41 Morrison Avenue, 1 report35 Morrison Avenue, 1 report3 Morrison Avenue, 1 report29 Morrison Avenue, 1 report26–28 Morrison Avenue, 1 report23 Morrison Avenue, 1 report22 Morrison Avenue, 1 report21 Morrison Avenue, 1 report1E Morrison Avenue, 1 report14 Morrison Avenue, 1 report13 Morrison Avenue, 1 report12A Morrison Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Morrison Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Morrison Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Morrison Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Morrison Avenue 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

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 Morrison Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Morrison Avenue in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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 Morrison Avenue?

In Northcote, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Morrison Avenue?

109 reports at 37 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (43), rubbish & dumping (27), trees & parks (18).

When was Morrison Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 94 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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