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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]
[Carleton]
Carleton is an agricultural and pastoral district, about four miles from Oxford. Its flag railway station is thirty-seven miles from Christchurch, and stands at an altitude of 623 feet above the level of the sea, on the Oxford-Bennett's line. A public school, not far from the railway station, serves the district, and also Bennett's. Carleton is situated in the Oxford riding of the county of Ashley, and at the census of 1901 had a population of fifty-four souls.
The Public School at Carleton contains two class rooms and two porches. There is accommodation for ninety children; there are forty-seven on the roll, and the average attendance is forty-one. A plantamon of well grown pines surrounds the school and the teacher's residence. Miss Janet Dick is at present (1902) the mistress in charge.