Kingsdown is a farming district in the Otipua riding of the Levels county. It lies between Saltwater Creek and Springbrook, near St. Andrews, and between the settlements of Salisbury, Adair and Beaconsfield and the sea coast. The land is undulating in character. Kingsdown has a public school, post office, and a growing population devoted to outdoor pursuits. The railway station, which is named Normanby, is nineteen feet above sea level. It is 104 miles from Christchurch, four miles from Timaru, and six from St. Andrews.

The Public School At Kingsdown was established about 1881. There are thirteen acres of well planted land in connection with the school premises, and the school building, which is of wood and plaster, contains two class rooms and two porches. It has accommodation for seventy pupils; there are forty three on the roll, and the average attendance is forty-one. The master's residence adjoins the school.

Mr. Robert Stewart, Master of Kingsdown school, was born in Dunedin in 1864. He qualified as a teacher in Otago, and served at Waihemo, Invercargill, and at Springburn in the North Canterbury Education district, before being appointed to Kingsdown school in 1896. Mr. Stewart was married, in 1889, to a daughter of Mr. T. Todd, of Waikiwi, Southland, and has one son and one daughter.