Dalefield is a village situated about two miles from the Carterton Telegraph Office, on the railway line towards Masterton. It is the centre of a dairying district, and contains a dairy factory, from which large quantities of butter and cheese are turned out. There is a public school with an average attendance of about seventy. Mails for Dalefield close at Wellington at 6.45 a.m., and arrive at Dalefield at 11 a.m. Mails for Wellington close at Dalefield at 7.15 a.m., and arrive at Wellington at 11.50 a.m.