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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

[Ashurst]

Situated on the Foxton-Napier section of New Zealand Government Railways at an altitude of 238 feet above sea level, distant ninety-six miles from Wellington, 103 miles from Napier, and nine miles from Palmerston North, Ashurst is within easy walking distance of the famous Manawatu Gorge, one of the sights of the district. The township, which has a population of 316, with an additional 564 in the immediate vicinity, is in the Ashurst Riding of the County of Oroua, and in the Electoral District of Palmerston. The local post and telephone office is also a post-office savings bank, and a place for the issue of money-orders and postal notes. Mails from all parts are received and despatched every day. Ashurst is surrounded by an agricultural and pastoral district containing a large area of bush land, the timber of which is being rapidly brought to market by the various saw-millers.

The township has the usual complement of churches and a local public school, under the guidance of a committee elected annually by the householders. Tourists and travellers will find the several hostelries convenient, and their hosts civil and obliging.

Ashurst.

Ashurst.