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

Mokoreta

Mokoreta.

Mokoreta is an agricultural and sheepfarming district, in the Wyndham valley, on the banks of the Mokoreta river. It is in the Toetoes riding of the county of Southland, and in the electorate of Mataura, and lies about sixteen miles south-east from Wyndham towards Waikawa. At the census of 1901 there was a population of forty-seven in the township, and forty-three additional in the valley. Mokoreta has a post office, and there is a public school, with an average attendance of twenty-five children. The settlers have a cheese factory; and in 1904 a Presbyterian church, with seating-room for 100 adults, was built in the settlement.

Mcrae, Duncan Mckenzie , Sheepfarmer, “Mount Egmont,” Mokoreta. Mr McRae was born in 1845, at Lochalsh, Ross-shire, Scotland, where he was educated and brought up on his father's farm. He came to the Bluff by the ship “Helenslea,” in 1863, and went to Glenure station, where he was shepherding for eight page 1082 years. He then took up a farm in the Forest Hill district, which he sold to his brother three years later, and bought the Waikawa run. About 1880, Mr McRae acquired the Wyndham run, which he held for about twenty-four years before selling to Messrs Begg Brothers in 1903. His present holding of 2,400 acres, which he devotes to sheepfarming, was a portion of the old run, and a good residence and substantial farm building have been erected on it. Mr McRae is a Master Mason of Lodge Mokoreta, Wyndham, chairman of the Mokoreta Cemetery Trust, and a member of the Mokoreta school and Presbyterian church committees.

Mr. D. K. McRae.

Mr. D. K. McRae.