Matsons Avenue

123 reports at 61 addresses in PAPANUI, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 108 separate days somebody filed something about it.

123 reports 61 addresses108 days reported onfrom the air, then 3 documents carry the namethe 654th 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 Matsons Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is PAPANUI.

From the air, then

Matsons Avenue from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Matsons Avenue from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Matsons Avenue from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Matsons 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

and the other 1 the record names

130 Matsons Avenue, 1 report

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 50 reports
Water & drains, 35 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 18 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 15 reports
Trees & parks, 3 reports
Everything else, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 1 report
2018, 3 reports
2019, 8 reports
2020, 12 reports
2021, 8 reports
2022, 30 reports
2023, 20 reports
2024, 11 reports
2025, 23 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 15 May 1902) · Papers Past, 15 May 1902
…est collected address 166 hereford street po box 486 telephone no 1151 for sale st albans matsons avenue new seven-roomed house ih and c water nmin sewer connection splendid garden tthree eiehbhs of a…
No Asset Procedures · New Zealand Gazette, 30 Sept 2010
…34 Keller Street, Avonside, Christchurch - 22 September 2010.Smith, Randall Craig, 1/205 Matsons Avenue, Papanui, Christchurch - 17 September 2010.Stewart, Bradley James, 1/40A Pannell Avenue, Wainon…
Notice of Intention to Restore Companies to the Companies Register · New Zealand Gazette, 25 Mar 2019
…Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021. KARAKA FARMLETS LIMITED. Applicant: Deborah Anne Truesdale, 190 Matsons Avenue, Papanui, Christchurch 8053. LION TRADING CO LIMITED. Applicant: P. S. Singh, 114b Oakdale Road…

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.

Dudley Creek stream · 4 m away St James Park shelter · 129 m away