Sawyers Arms Road

506 reports at 116 addresses in Northcote, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 350 separate days somebody filed something about it.

506 reports 116 addresses350 days reported onfrom the air, then 25 documents carry the name 4 businessesthe 115th 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 Sawyers Arms Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Northcote.

From the air, then

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

Sawyers Arms Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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

Sawyers Arms 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

and the other 56 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 263 reports
Trees & parks, 68 reports
Water & drains, 54 reports
Roads & footpaths, 51 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 49 reports
Everything else, 9 reports
Vehicles & parking, 8 reports
Noise, 2 reports

Year by year

2016, 3 reports
2017, 10 reports
2018, 4 reports
2019, 25 reports
2020, 63 reports
2021, 61 reports
2022, 66 reports
2023, 106 reports
2024, 52 reports
2025, 80 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 25 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Local and General. (Star, 03 December 1868) · Papers Past, 3 Dec 1868
…also stated that the contracts entered into for gravelling the bush inn road and also the sawyers arms road had been satisfactorily completed and the additions to the bridge at stokes on the harewood…
Local and General. (Star, 08 April 1869) · Papers Past, 8 Apr 1869
…nction road had been carried out and also that mr claridge the contractor for claying the sawyers arms road had completed his contract most satisfactorily the labour gang during the month had been emp…
Local and General. (Star, 05 November 1870) · Papers Past, 5 Nov 1870
…en cleared but to recce road and that-the repairs ordered to highsteds gardinerfs and the sawyers arms roads had been effected and that frost road was now being repaired with gravel the subject of the…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 11 November 1873) · Papers Past, 11 Nov 1873
…250 do highsted j 200 do styx road 300 do lincoln j and riccarton junction road 135 do i sawyers arms road 680 do martin road 150 do specifications can be seen at the oflice of the board cashel stree…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 15 September 1891) · Papers Past, 15 Sept 1891
…j inglis buildings money 10 lend in large ob small bums psofebtieb fob sale q1 aceeb near sawyers arms road good land 70 aores in oats terms easy a bargain 1 1a acues at killinohy all in grass price x…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 20 May 1892) · Papers Past, 20 May 1892
…ed oxford 6o acres choioe little farm taldhubst 2so acre�� very choice farm well improved sawyers arms road is acres ohoioe land and good houae rollkstun 32o acres good sheep oountry and 4-room-sd hou…
PAPANUI DRAINAGE. (Star, 06 July 1898) · Papers Past, 6 Jul 1898
…e is as follows 1 to extend the existing water-race that now goes to the north end of the sawyers arms road and empties into a gravel pit down that road to the papanui road by means of a water-race a…
A FLUSHING SCHEME. (Star, 08 July 1898) · Papers Past, 8 Jul 1898
…elwyn county council races for flushing the side channels on the north road as far as the sawyers arms road by bringing the water through papanui by means of properly consvtructed side channels and do…
BELFAST HORSE-WOUNDING CABB. (Star, 12 November 1902) · Papers Past, 12 Nov 1902
…covered by the accused before an after the offence had been committed from greer house on sawyers arms road to a point on gardiner road marked on the map was 1 miles at this point a man named priest w…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 18 October 1907) · Papers Past, 18 Oct 1907
…thia column for cash foubtebn words 6d h matson and co 164 cashel street rp o let to ibt sawyers arms road papsirai s roomed honse and 8 acres good lead rent only 12s 6d weekly spreydon neariy new ho…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 23 October 1907) · Papers Past, 23 Oct 1907
…column for cash pooktjsbji wobds bd i h matson ant co 164 gashel street tt rpo let to leu sawyers arms road pmpantu b boomed house and s acxem good ijftnd rent only 119 6d weekly spreydon nearly new h…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 17 October 1908) · Papers Past, 17 Oct 1908
…al square 1525 wanted youth to drive horse and do garden work good home 10s week e sisson sawyers arms road papanui 1412 anted boy about 18 to assist en dairy farm tnust be a good milker apply patfcer…