Matai Street West
109 reports at 40 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 94 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 Matai Street West, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Riccarton.
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
- 35A Matai Street West, 13 reports
- 23 Matai Street West, 10 reports
- 70 Matai Street West, 7 reports
- 25A Matai Street West, 7 reports
- 48 Matai Street West, 6 reports
- 92A Matai Street West, 5 reports
- 60 Matai Street West, 5 reports
- 86 Matai Street West, 4 reports
- 55 Matai Street West, 4 reports
- 58D Matai Street West, 3 reports
- 58 Matai Street West, 3 reports
- 45 Matai Street West, 3 reports
- 10 Matai Street West, 3 reports
- 90A Matai Street West, 2 reports
- 86A Matai Street West, 2 reports
- 83A Matai Street West, 2 reports
- 82E Matai Street West, 2 reports
- 81 Matai Street West, 2 reports
- 76 Matai Street West, 2 reports
- 54 Matai Street West, 2 reports
- 35 Matai Street West, 2 reports
- 31 Matai Street West, 2 reports
- 90 Matai Street West, 1 report
- 85 Matai Street West, 1 report
- 68 Matai Street West, 1 report
- 67 MATAI Street West, 1 report
- 66 Matai Street West, 1 report
- 64 Matai Street West, 1 report
- 58C MATAI Street West, 1 report
- 58B MATAI Street West, 1 report
- 56 Matai Street West, 1 report
- 51 Matai Street West, 1 report
- 50B Matai Street West, 1 report
- 50B MATAI Street West, 1 report
- 41 Matai Street West, 1 report
- 37 Matai Street West, 1 report
- 33 Matai Street West, 1 report
- 31A Matai Street West, 1 report
- 29B Matai Street West, 1 report
- 29A Matai Street West, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 37 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 37 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 17 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 6 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 5 reports
- Everything else, 3 reports
- Trees & parks, 3 reports
- Animals & pests, 1 report
Year by year
- 2017, 2 reports
- 2020, 2 reports
- 2021, 5 reports
- 2022, 23 reports
- 2023, 27 reports
- 2024, 37 reports
- 2025, 6 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- Bankruptcies
· New Zealand Gazette,
…35C Totara Street, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt - 13 December 2010.Jellyman, Jennifer Anne, 29B Matai Street West, Riccarton, Christchurch - 13 December 2010.Jennings, Sarah Violet Lorraine, 29 Riverstone D…
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The businesses on it, 2
Premises whose address in the directory is Matai Street West, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
The named ground
Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; 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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Matai Street West in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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 & GENERA. (Otago Witness, 15 August 1906) · Otago Witness,
- Grey River Argus and Blackball News. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, APRIL 9th, 1906. (Grey River Argus, 09 April 1907) · Grey River Argus,
- AN £800,000 ESTATE (Otago Daily Times 9-6-1914) ·
- FIRST DIVISION (Evening Post, 02 October 1917) · Evening Post,
- THE ART UNION (Evening Post, 15 October 1935) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 11 June 1941) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 09 July 1941) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 31 July 1942) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 15 September 1942) · Evening Post,
- MILITARY MEDAL (Evening Post, 08 December 1944) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. PERSONNEL REPORTED SAFE (Evening Post, 27 April 1945) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 48 Matai Street West,
- Water Leak, 92A Matai Street West,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 48 Matai Street West,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 60 Matai Street West,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 60 Matai Street West,
- Water Leak, 45 Matai Street West,
- Water Leak, 90A Matai Street West,
- Litter, 31 Matai Street West,
- Dumped Rubbish, 31 Matai Street West,
- Damaged Street Sign, 48 Matai Street West,
- Damaged Street Sign, 35A Matai Street West,
- Pit and Equipment - General, 29B Matai Street West,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 35A Matai Street West,
- Water Leak, 58D Matai Street West,
- Water Leak, 58 Matai Street West,
Questions, answered briefly
In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
109 reports at 40 addresses, most often water & drains (37), graffiti & vandalism (37), roads & footpaths (17).
2017, the record covers 94 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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