Symes Road
30 reports at 14 addresses in Wigram, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 28 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 Symes Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Wigram.
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
- 21A Symes Road, 5 reports
- 21 Symes Road, 5 reports
- 19 Symes Road, 3 reports
- 11 Symes Road, 3 reports
- 10 Symes Road, 3 reports
- 12C Symes Road, 2 reports
- 12 Symes Road, 2 reports
- 7A Symes Road, 1 report
- 27 Symes Road, 1 report
- 22 Symes Road, 1 report
- 21–27 Symes Road, 1 report
- 17B Symes Road, 1 report
- 17 Symes Road, 1 report
- 13 Symes Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Trees & parks, 9 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 8 reports
- Water & drains, 6 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 3 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 2 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 1 report
- Everything else, 1 report
Year by year
- 2016, 1 report
- 2017, 1 report
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 3 reports
- 2020, 6 reports
- 2021, 4 reports
- 2022, 2 reports
- 2023, 3 reports
- 2024, 1 report
- 2025, 6 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 28 April 1945)
· Papers Past,
…nard g lcpl mrs b hirst main road clevedon auckland aunt flynn james e pte mrs ml mumford symes road sockburn christchurch grandmother fraser vincent c v tpr mrs g e fraser 29 kabul street wairoa m ge…
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The businesses on it, 1
Premises whose address in the directory is Symes Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
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.
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Wanganui Chronicle, 05 February 1897) · Wanganui Chronicle,
- TABLE TALK. (Otago Witness, 17 May 1905) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK. (Otago Witness, 28 June 1905) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK. MONDAY, February 5. (Otago Witness, 07 February 1906) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK. (Otago Witness, 14 March 1906) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK. (Otago Witness, 28 March 1906) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK. (Otago Witness, 06 March 1907) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK. (Otago Witness, 21 August 1907) · Otago Witness,
- PARLIAMENT. (Taranaki Herald, 06 November 1907) · Taranaki Herald,
- TABLE TALK (Otago Witness, 22 January 1908) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK (Otago Witness, 22 April 1908) · Otago Witness,
- CHAPTER XXII.—THE CRUCIAL MOMENT. (Otago Witness, 29 April 1908) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK (Otago Witness, 10 February 1909) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK (Otago Witness, 26 May 1909) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK (Otago Witness, 02 June 1909) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK (Otago Witness, 14 July 1909) · Otago Witness,
- TIMARU, September 6. (Otago Witness, 08 September 1909) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK. (Otago Witness, 10 November 1909) · Otago Witness,
- CHRISTCHURCH, November 15. (Otago Witness, 17 November 1909) · Otago Witness,
- PERSONAL NOTES (Evening Post, 01 March 1932) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Dumped Rubbish, 21 Symes Rd,
- Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 21–27 Symes Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 19 Symes Rd,
- General Request, 12 Symes Road,
- Road Signage, 11 Symes Road,
- Hazard, vehicle, 10 Symes Road,
- Hazard, vehicle, 11 Symes Road,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 12C Symes Road,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 10 Symes Road,
- Park - General Request, 19 Symes Road,
- Water Leak, 17B Symes Road,
- Park - General Request, 19 Symes Road,
- Parks, 22 Symes Road,
- Water Leak, 10 Symes Road,
- Water Supply, 12C Symes Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand.
30 reports at 14 addresses, most often trees & parks (9), rubbish & dumping (8), water & drains (6).
2016, the record covers 28 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Main South Road and Symes Road, 30 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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