Short Street
9 reports at 5 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 9 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 Short Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Waltham.
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
- 9 Short Street, 3 reports
- 7A Short Street, 2 reports
- 11 Short Street, 2 reports
- 2/11 Short Street, 1 report
- 14 Short Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 4 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Trees & parks, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2017, 2 reports
- 2023, 2 reports
- 2024, 1 report
- 2025, 2 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 127 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 05 June 1858)
· Papers Past,
…s beg to inform the inhabitants of lyttelton and christchurch that during1 their intended short staf they will carry on all the branches of dental surgery as follows artificial teeth supplied on the m…
- The Lyttelton Times. (Lyttelton Times, 31 August 1859)
· Papers Past,
…a distance than the more private events which record the progress of colonization still a short statement of our political affairs cannot be dispensed with first as to the affairs of the colony at lar…
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 05 November 1859)
· Papers Past,
…tothe inhabitants of christchurch for the liberal patronage bestowed upon him during his short stay and to inform them that on his return from kaiapoi where he purposes playing two evenings viz thurs…
- News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 02 July 1864)
· Papers Past,
…we never expected at one time to see it again a j barristgtgn ps the above is just a very short statement as i have not been table to write but i hope soon to be able to lay before the public my whole…
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As it was reported
The latest on it
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 14 Short St,
- Road Blockage, 9 Short St,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 11 Short Street,
- Water General, 2/11 Short Street,
- Pavement - General, 7A Short Street,
- Street Cleaning, 7A Short Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 11 Short Street,
- Rubbish/Recycling, 9 Short Street,
- Graffiti, 9 Short Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.
9 reports at 5 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (4), roads & footpaths (2), water & drains (1).
2017, the record covers 9 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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