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

Harrington And Fernhills

Harrington And Fernhills . The district lying between Centre Bush and Dipton is generally known as Fernhills, but Harrington is the name of the postal district and of the railway siding. The station, which is on the Invercargill-Kingston line of railway, is ten miles from Winton, and twenty-nine miles from Invercargill, and stands at an elevation of 283 feet above sea level. At the census of 1901, the immediate neighbourhood of the siding had a population of eighteen, the township of Fernhills seventy, and the district thirty-five. The settlements of Fernhills and Harrington are in the Winton riding of the county of Southland, and in the electorate of Wallace. They are purely agricultural districts, and all the available bush has been cut out. A part of the district known as Fernhill village settlement is occupied by small settlers. The district is on the eastern bank of the Oreti river, and is watered also by the Winton stream. It has a public school, and there is a Presbyterian church, where services are conducted by the minister who resides at Dipton.