Kahu Road

24 reports at 10 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2025. 23 separate days somebody filed something about it.

24 reports 10 addresses23 days reported onfrom the air, then 7 documents carry the namethe 2176th 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 Kahu Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Riccarton.

From the air, then

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

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

Kahu 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

2 Kahu Road, 6 reports
8 Kahu Road, 4 reports
5 Kahu Road, 4 reports
9 Kahu Road, 3 reports
9A Kahu Road, 2 reports
7 Kahu Road, 1 report
4 Kahu Road, 1 report
3 Kahu Road, 1 report
16 Kahu Road, 1 report
10 Kahu Road, 1 report

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 10 reports
Water & drains, 7 reports
Vehicles & parking, 2 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 2 reports
Trees & parks, 1 report
Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 2 reports
2017, 1 report
2018, 2 reports
2021, 2 reports
2022, 2 reports
2023, 6 reports
2024, 4 reports
2025, 4 reports

In the written record

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

WAR CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 12 March 1941) · Papers Past, 12 Mar 1941
…l munro walker rnzaf died of injuries received in flying accident next-of-kin mr walker 6 kahu road fendalton christchurch sergeant andrew moore brotlie rnzaf missing on operations next-of-kin mrs bro…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 06 February 1942) · Papers Past, 6 Feb 1942
…383 armagh street christchurch f palairet allan frederick gwalter tcpl mrs l n palairet 2 kahu road ric carton m ross john menzies pte mrs l w ross care mrs dellow main south road tinwald w saggers jo…
Riccarton House, Kahu Road · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1990
Exterior of Riccarton House, built by the Deans family, at 16 Kahu Road, Riccarton. Rosemary Spiewak collection…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 20 Oct 2005
…, Torbay, Auckland, at 3.07 p.m.Paszczuk, Antoni Stephan, beneficiary/house husband, of 6 Kahu Road, Panmure, Auckland, at 5.00 p.m.Rewa, Rangi, housewife, of 16 Grenville Street,New Plymouth, at 1.20…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 2 Nov 2006
…reet, Gladstone, Invercargill, at 11.59 a.m.Taylor, Geoffrey Duff, business broker, of 19 Kahu Road, Fendalton, Christchurch, at 1.45 p.m.27 October 2006Curry, Peter Robert, beneficiary, of 124 Lincol…
Riccarton House and Bush · Canterbury Stories, 26 Mar 2021
The grounds of Riccarton House and Bush (16 Kahu Road). Ōpāwaho Divide 2021…
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register · New Zealand Gazette, 15 Dec 2022
…S 2021 LIMITED KAFE ORANJE LIMITED KAHAANIBAAZ PRODUCTIONS LIMITED KAHERE RETREAT LIMITED KAHU ROAD STUDIO LIMITED KAHURA LIMITED KAHURANGI PATHWAYS LIMITED KAI HIWA RA LIMITED KAIARA ENTERPRISES LIMI…

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Kahu Road in 9 crashes 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.