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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Reidston
Reidston is a dairying and agricultural district on the northern bank of the Kakanui river, and in the Kakanui riding of the Waitaki county. At the census of 1901 there were eighty inhabitants, in addition to twenty-one at Taipo, which is close at hand. Reidston has a fellmongery, a flour and oatmeal mill, stone quarries, and engineering works. The settlement was originally a reserve owned by the Otago Provincial Council, by the instructions of which it was subdivided into quarter acre allotments, and was sold by public auction by the late Hon. S. E. Shrimski, in the year 1872. Close by there are large buildings, which at one time formed part of the Totara station. Mr. W. Rawson, who was the first postmaster, was also the earliest settler to erect a house in the village. Reidston is about seven miles from Oamaru, on the main south road, and the settlement of Maheno lies on the opposite side of the Kakanui river, a mile and a half away. There is a local post office, though neither store, church nor school, but a church and school are both available at Maheno.