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Tainui Street

32 reports at 18 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 30 separate days somebody filed something about it.

32 reports18 addresses30 days reported onfrom the air, then65 documents carry the namethe 1869th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

14 Tainui Street, 6 reports20 Tainui Street, 4 reports16 Tainui Street, 3 reports53 Tainui Street, 2 reports28 Tainui Street, 2 reports18 Tainui Street, 2 reports17 Tainui Street, 2 reports43 Tainui Street, 1 report40-30 Tainui Street, 1 report35A Tainui Street, 1 report35 Tainui Street, 1 report34 Tainui Street, 1 report33B Tainui Street, 1 report33 Tainui Street, 1 report3 Tainui Street, 1 report28A Tainui Street, 1 report25 Tainui Street, 1 report20A Tainui Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Tainui Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Tainui Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tainui Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tainui Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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. 65 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.

Waimokihi Stream stream · 132 m away

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

Pavement - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoPothole, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Somerfield wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Tainui Street?

In Somerfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Tainui Street?

32 reports at 18 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (12), water & drains (10), rubbish & dumping (6).

When was Tainui Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 30 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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