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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Whitstone

Whitstone is the name of an agricultural and dairy farming district, which originally consisted of the Whit-stone sheep station, and has been appropriately named from the white stone which abounds in the locality. It is six miles from Oamaru and two from Enfield, and the main road connecting Oamaru with Ngapara passes through the settlement. The local flag station, which is named Lorne, stands at an elevation of 264 feet above sea level, and is on the branch railway line from Oamaru to Ngapara and Tokarahi. The local ereamery is well supported, and a post office is conducted at the manager's house. Settlers send their children to the public school at Enfield. The land in the district is good in quality, and rests on a limestone formation and the country is undulating in character. Whitstone is in the Waiareka riding of the county of Waitaki, and at the census of 1901 had a population of fifty-one.