Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1897, Wellington

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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In the Purua Riding of the County of Wanganui, Fordell is a station on the New Plymouth-Foxton section of Government Railways, thirteen miles south-east of Wanganui and 138 from Wellington. There are combined postal, telegraphic, and railway offices, money orders and postal notes being issued, and savings bank business transacted; daily mails are received and despatched. The township contains a population of 151, and the outlying districts, where there are many grand farms, 187 additional. The local school is known as the Warrengate Public School.