Akaroa Street
11 reports at 1 address in Shirley, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 10 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 Akaroa Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Shirley.
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
- 54 Akaroa Street, 11 reports
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 5 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 4 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 1 report
- Trees & parks, 1 report
Year by year
- 2019, 1 report
- 2020, 2 reports
- 2022, 2 reports
- 2025, 5 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 26 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 24 January 1852)
· Papers Past,
…tcher meat can be obtained at a reasonable rate and in abundance the scenery and walks of akaroa stand unrivalled there is likewise excellent seabathing such an opportunity rarely occurs to persons of…
- JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 31 March 1855)
· Papers Past,
jury list abrahams thomas winchester street ly ttelton stonemason adams thomas akaroa storekeeper adams william christchurch ginger beer manufacturer adams thomas kynnersley kaiapoi gentlem…
- JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 04 April 1855)
· Papers Past,
…frederick stoneyhurst station manager lucas thomas kaiapoi laborer lucas william land end akaroa stockowner luck isaac christchurch architect lugton james kaituna laborer luxton john windsor glendhu n…
- JURY LIST FOR 1860. (Lyttelton Times, 19 May 1860)
· Papers Past,
…terbury street lyttelton chemist and druggist barley thomas ohoka road kaiapoi beal henry akaroa street kaiapoi laborer bealey jplin manchester street christchurbn gentleman bealey samuel gresford nea…
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 01 August 1860)
· Papers Past,
…ursday august 9 1860 unreserved sale of land four valuable quarter-acre sections fronting akaroa street kaiapoi mr w d barnard has received instructions to sell by public auction at the white hart hot…
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The named ground
Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Akaroa Street in 14 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Traffic Signals, 54 Akaroa Street,
- Damaged Street Sign, 54 Akaroa St,
- Road Signage, 54 Akaroa Street,
- Road Signage, 54 Akaroa Street,
- Road Signage, 54 Akaroa Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 54 Akaroa Street,
- Graffiti, 54 Akaroa Street,
- Graffiti, 54 Akaroa Street,
- Graffiti, 54 Akaroa Street,
- Graffiti, 54 Akaroa Street,
- Graffiti, 54 Akaroa St,
Questions, answered briefly
In Shirley, Christchurch, New Zealand.
11 reports at 1 address, most often graffiti & vandalism (5), roads & footpaths (4), rubbish & dumping (1).
2019, the record covers 10 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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