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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

[Opihi]

Opihi is a prosperous farming district on the south bank of the Opihi river. There is a good deal of flat country, interspersed with high terrace lands, which, here and there, display buttresses of limestone, valuable for building purposes. The public school stands on one of the highlands overlooking the valley of the Opihi river. Letters are delivered twice weekly by mail cart from Pleasant Point. The district is devoted principally to sheep farming. It is situated in the Tengawai riding of the Levels county, and had a population of 104 at the census of March, 1901.

The Opihi Public School was established about 1880. It is of wood and iron, and contains a class room and a porch, with accommodation for eighty pupils. There are twenty-nine names on the roll, and the average attendance is twenty-three. The school glebe is planted with some well grown shelter trees, and the teacher's residence, adjoining the school, is surrounded by a good garden.