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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Drummond

Drummond is one of the best agricultural districts in Southland. The main road northward from the Bluff and Invercargill passes through the district to Heddon Bush and the country beyond, and the settlement is equi-distant between the Oreti and Aparima. It is twenty-six miles by road from Invercargill, ten miles from Otautau by Bays water, nine miles from Fairfax, ten miles and a-half from Winton, fourteen miles from Thornbury, and twenty miles from Riverton. There are two churches in the settlement —Presbyterian and Methodist—and a public hall, which will seat 200 persons. The business premises include three stores, a smithy, a saddler's shop, and a hotel. The land for six miles round the township is perfectly flat, and is held by well-to-do freeholders, who grow grain and graze sheep. The post office, which is conducted at a local store, dates from 1885, and telephone communication was established in February, 1892. The settlement is on, or near, the boundary line of the Awarua and Wallace electorates, with a part in each district. It is also partly in the Otautau riding, and partly in the Winton riding, of the county of Southland. At the census of 1901, the population of the village and vicinity in the former riding was 288, and the latter, seventy.