Governors Bay Road

75 reports at 39 addresses in Rapaki, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 64 separate days somebody filed something about it.

75 reports 39 addresses64 days reported onfrom the air, then 12 documents carry the namethe 1053rd 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 Governors Bay Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Rapaki.

From the air, then

Governors Bay Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · 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

Water & drains, 24 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 15 reports
Roads & footpaths, 14 reports
Trees & parks, 9 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 8 reports
Vehicles & parking, 4 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2017, 2 reports
2018, 2 reports
2019, 2 reports
2020, 2 reports
2021, 3 reports
2022, 10 reports
2023, 17 reports
2024, 25 reports
2025, 6 reports

In the written record

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

Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 22 January 1859) · Papers Past, 22 Jan 1859
…nd cavendish manilla cigars drapery slops boots and shoes dalgety buckley co norwich quay governors bay road little eaupaki marine villa building sites to besold twenty acres of freehold land tjiminen…
ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF ELLESMERE. CLAIMS TO VOTE—IB 62. (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1862) · Papers Past, 12 Apr 1862
…dampier christopher ed ward northport saltwater creek freehold sections 714 and part 247 governors bay road 2237 2242 2243 c little river thomas cass dean george purau household and leasehold leaseho…
Eruera Tirikatene and Ruti Solomon wedding · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1919
Group portrait at the wedding of Eruera Tirikatene to Ruti Solomon at 222 Governors Bay Road. 2013 Photo Hunt…
Governors Bay Road · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
Hairpin bend on Governors Bay Road, looking towards Lyttelton Harbour. Photographs…
tutu, Coriaria sarmentosa G.Forst. · Te Papa Collections Online, 25 Jan 1941
…oriaria sarmentosa G.Forst., collected 25 January 1941, Port Hills, Chch [Christchurch] - Governors Bay Road., New Zealand. Acquisition details/history unknown. Found in collection, 2014-2015. CC BY 4…
List of Independent Marriage and Civil Union Celebrants · New Zealand Gazette, 18 Dec 2013
…ette Marie, 325 Pine Avenue, South Brighton, Christchurch M Farrar, Te Inupo Lavinia, 156 Governors Bay Road, Rapaki, Lyttelton M Farrelly, Christopher Patrick, 16 Bayview Place, Little Munro Bay, Wha…
List of Independent Marriage and Civil Union Celebrants · New Zealand Gazette, 12 Dec 2014
…ette Marie, 325 Pine Avenue, South Brighton, Christchurch M Farrar, Te Inupo Lavinia, 156 Governors Bay Road, Rapaki, Lyttelton, Christchurch M Farrell, Nicola Kate, 17B George Street, Thorndon, Welli…
St Cuthbert's Church · Canterbury Stories, 25 Dec 2014
St Cuthbert’s Church (8 Governors Bay Road), Allandale. Cafe Cecil collection…
St Cuthbert's Church · Canterbury Stories, 25 Dec 2014
St Cuthbert’s Church (8 Governors Bay Road), Allandale. Cafe Cecil collection…
St Cuthbert's Church, Allandale · Canterbury Stories, 25 Dec 2014
St Cuthbert’s Church (8 Governors Bay Road), Allandale. Cafe Cecil collection…
St Cuthbert's Church and cabbage tree · Canterbury Stories, 25 Dec 2014
A cabbage tree growing next to St Cuthbert’s Church (8 Governors Bay Road), Allandale. Cafe Cecil collection…
List of Independent Marriage and Civil Union Celebrants · New Zealand Gazette, 16 Dec 2015
…Marie, 325 Pine Avenue, South New Brighton, Christchurch M Farrar, Te Inupo Lavinia, 156 Governors Bay Road, Rapaki M Farrell, Nikki Kate, 17 George Street, Thorndon, Wellington M Farrelly, Christoph…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.