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

Waimumu

Waimumu is the name applied to the country on each side of the Waimumu stream, a tributary of the Mataura, which rises in the mountains to the northward of that river, and joins it at the township of Mataura. The railway station nearest to Waimumu is Charlton, on the Dunedin-Invercargill line. Waimumu is primarily a farming district; but gold having been discovered by boring, dredging has been taken up as an industry, and in some places fine paddocks have been destroyed in order to secure the gold in the soil. Though no phenomonal returns have been reaped, the dredges have proved steady gold winners. The district known as the Waimumu hundreds, at the census of 1901, had a population of 608. Waimumu has a public school, with an average attendance of twenty-one children. Presbyterian church services are held once a month in the local school house.