Five Rivers is the name of a flag station on the Invercargill-Kingston line of railway, fifty-eight miles from Invercargill, and eight miles from Lumsden. It is the centre of a small farming and grazing district, and is bounded on one side by the well-known Five Rivers estate, and on the other by the run of Mr. W. B. Rogers. The land is high, and the railway station stands 907 feet above sea level. The district forms part of the Oreti riding of the county of Southland, and is in the electoral district of Wakatipu. Its population at the census of 1901 was twenty-two.

Dome Station (W. B. Rogers, proprietor), Five Rivers. This sheep station comprises 5,800 acres of freehold, and 11,300 acres of leasehold, and carries from 5,000 to 6,000 sheep.

Mr. William Braithwaite Rogers , Proprietor of Dome Station, is a son of the late Mr J. Rogers, of Glenquoich station, and was born at Glenquoich, Athol, in 1866. He was educated at Invercargill Grammar School, and at private schools in Christchurch and Dunedin. With the exception of one year spent in the North Island. Mr Rogers was employed on Glenquoich station, up to the time of his father's death, and managed it for twelve months. On leaving Glenquoich, he bought a portion of Glenure station, which he sold two years later to buy a farm at Wyndham. At the end of two years, he sold the farm and bought the Dome station in February, 1903. Mr Rogers is married to a daughter of Mr C. E. Gudgeon, of Queenstown, and has one son and one daughter.