Purau Avenue
8 reports at 3 addresses in Purau, the first in 2022, the latest 2025. 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 Purau Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Purau.
From the air, then
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
- 50 Purau Avenue, 5 reports
- 193 Purau Avenue, 2 reports
- 175 Purau Avenue, 1 report
What got reported
- Everything else, 5 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
- Trees & parks, 1 report
- Animals & pests, 1 report
Year by year
- 2022, 2 reports
- 2024, 4 reports
- 2025, 2 reports
On the register
- Dwelling and Setting, Stoddart's Cottage, 18 Purau Avenue
On foot, The quarantine shore walks this street.
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- Walking along Purau Avenue
· Canterbury Stories,
Phyllis Morse, her sister Mary Morse and friend Lorraine Fuller walking along Purau Avenue with Purau Bay in the background. 2013 Photo Hunt…
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.
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.
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 30 January 1904) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 25 January 1905) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 7 (Star, 03 June 1905) · Star,
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 10 July 1905) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 16 December 1905) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 17 February 1906) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 01 June 1907) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 12 October 1907) · Star,
- LOCAL AND GENERAL (Star, 26 October 1907) · Star,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 23 May 1908) · Star,
- Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 23 January 1909) · Star,
- LOCAL AND GENERAL (Evening Post, 29 March 1921) · Evening Post,
- A LARGE BOILER (Evening Post, 20 May 1933) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Purau, Christchurch, New Zealand.
8 reports at 3 addresses, most often everything else (5), vehicles & parking (1), trees & parks (1).
2022, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.
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