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Huia Street

73 reports at 20 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 62 separate days somebody filed something about it.

73 reports20 addresses62 days reported onfrom the air, then21 documents carry the namethe 1077th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Huia Street, 17 reports6B Huia Street, 8 reports1 Huia Street, 6 reports7A Huia Street, 5 reports9 Huia Street, 4 reports7 Huia Street, 4 reports5 Huia Street, 4 reports1C Huia Street, 4 reports6A Huia Street, 3 reports6 Huia Street, 3 reports8 Huia Street, 2 reports6E Huia Street, 2 reports5A Huia Street, 2 reports3A Huia Street, 2 reports3 Huia Street, 2 reports4 Huia Street, 1 report1B Huia Street, 1 report1A Huia Street, 1 report12 Huia Street, 1 report10 Huia Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Huia Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Huia Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Huia Street 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. 21 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Harrington Park set of steps · 123 m away Harrington Park shelter · 126 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Huia Street in 1 crash 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

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Huia Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Huia Street?

73 reports at 20 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (57), roads & footpaths (7), vehicles & parking (5).

When was Huia Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 62 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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