Totara Street
7 reports at 3 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2022, the latest 2025. 7 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 Totara Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Upper 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
- 149 Totara Street, 3 reports
- 146 Totara Street, 3 reports
- 144 Totara Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 5 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Trees & parks, 1 report
Year by year
- 2022, 1 report
- 2023, 2 reports
- 2024, 2 reports
- 2025, 2 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 43 on the shelf; the 8 earliest:
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 18 March 1854)
· Papers Past,
…ld laud with a substantially built weather-boarded house 30 feet by 16 feet and a capital totara stockyard part of the section is under cultivation and a run of 500 acres adjoins part of which is pre-…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 25 March 1854)
· Papers Past,
…ld land with a substantially built weather-boarded house 30 feet by 16 feet and a capital totara stockyard part of the section is under cultivationand a run of 500 acres adjoins part of which is pre-e…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 01 April 1854)
· Papers Past,
…ld land with a substantially built weather-boarded house 30 feet by 16 feet and a capital totara stockyard part of the section is under cultivation and a run of-500 acres adjoins part of which is pre-…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 08 April 1854)
· Papers Past,
…ld laud with a substantially built weather-hoarded house 30 feet by 16 feet and a capital totara stockyard part of the section is under cultivation and a run of 500 acres adjoins part of which is pre-…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 27 May 1854)
· Papers Past,
…ld land with a substantially built weather-boarded house 30 feet by 16 feet and a capital totara stockyard part of the section is under cultivation and a run of 500 acres adjoins part of which is pre-…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 03 June 1854)
· Papers Past,
…ld land with a substantially built weather-boarded house 30 feet by 16 feet and a capital totara stockyard part of the section is under cultivation and a run of 500 acres adjoins part of which is pre-…
- JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 31 March 1855)
· Papers Past,
…l papanui laborer bray john heathcote laborer bray w 8 avon head civil engineer brett win totara station servant breitmeyer john akaroa farmer bridger osmer timaru overseer brittan joseph avon river f…
- JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 04 April 1855)
· Papers Past,
…ntleman soer george christchurch farmer solaire alexander rangiora labourer sowerby heury totara station servant spencer thomas easdale nook station gent george andrew kaiapoi carpenter spowers james…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Totara Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 146 Totara St,
- Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 146 Totara St,
- Water Leak, 144 Totara Street,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 149 Totara Street,
- Graffiti, 149 Totara Street,
- Graffiti, 149 Totara Street,
- Damaged Street Sign, 146 Totara Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
7 reports at 3 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (5), water & drains (1), trees & parks (1).
2022, the record covers 7 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.
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