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

Fairfax

Fairfax is on the western bank of the Aparima river, and on the Riverton-Nightcaps line of railway. It is twenty-seven miles from Invercargill, and eighteen miles from the terminus at Nightcaps. The district is in the Aparima riding of the county of Wallace, and in the electorate of Wallace, and at the census of 1901, its population was recorded as eighty-seven. The main road from Thornbury to Otautau and Nightcaps passes through the township, and diverges eastward, over the bridge spanning the Aparima river, towards Limestone Plains and Drummond. Fairfax has a combined post office and railway station, at an elevation of seventy-nine feet above sea-level; an hotel, a store, a smith's shop, and a public school. Several sawmills are at work in the district, as a large extent of bush country lies to the south. Fairfax is, nevertheless, chiefly an agricultural, dairying, and pastoral district, and large quantities of grain are sent from the local station.