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Arawa Street

66 reports at 29 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 58 separate days somebody filed something about it.

66 reports29 addresses58 days reported onfrom the air, then39 documents carry the namethe 1142nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

38 Arawa Street, 8 reports36 Arawa Street, 5 reports35 Arawa Street, 5 reports49 Arawa Street, 4 reports42 Arawa Street, 4 reports2 Arawa Street, 4 reports41 Arawa Street, 3 reports27 Arawa Street, 3 reports14 Arawa Street, 3 reports7E Arawa Street, 2 reports51 Arawa Street, 2 reports48 Arawa Street, 2 reports40 Arawa Street, 2 reports3 Arawa Street, 2 reports12A Arawa Street, 2 reports10 Arawa Street, 2 reports6 Arawa Street, 1 report53 Arawa Street, 1 report50 Arawa Street, 1 report5 Arawa Street, 1 report46 Arawa Street, 1 report43 Arawa Street, 1 report39 Arawa Street, 1 report37 Arawa Street, 1 report23 Arawa Street, 1 report21 Arawa Street, 1 report16-36 Arawa Street, 1 report12 Arawa Street, 1 report11 Arawa Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Arawa Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Arawa Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Arawa 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. 39 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Shirley Stream stream · 12 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Arawa Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Shirley wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Arawa Street?

In Shirley, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Arawa Street?

66 reports at 29 addresses, most often water & drains (37), rubbish & dumping (11), graffiti & vandalism (8).

When was Arawa Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 58 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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