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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Sutton
Sutton is a small farming settlement on the Strath-Taieri plain, forty-four miles from Dunedin on the Otago Central railway. Among the earliest residents of the district were Mr. Sutton—after whom the place is named—and Messrs James Gilbert, William Dow, Patrick Spratt, Michael Egan, and Michael Moynihan. Most of the plain and of the surrounding hills was originally covered with native bush, of which small patches still remain. The district is divided into small farms, and much of the land is of good productive quality. A Government settlement has also been established, with holdings of about twenty five acres. Here the settlers carry on dairying, and since the establishment of a creamery at Middlemarch they have been very successful. There is a post office and a public school at Sutton, and Presbyterian church services are held in the schoolhouse.