.jpg)
The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Garston
Garston is a farming district in close communication with the mining centres of Nevis and Nokomai. The flag railway station is seventy-six miles from Invercargill, and eleven miles from Kingston, and stands at an elevation of 1,004 feet above sea level. The warm soil of the valley enables the settlers to grow very good cereal crops. At the local hotel there is good accommodation for tourists and travellers, and the proprietor also conducts a general store. There is also a blacksmith's shop in the village. Garston also has a public school, and a post office and telephone bureau, with daily mails to Lumsden and Queenstown, weekly mails to Invercargill, and, on four days in each week, to Dunedin. The local churches represent the Anglican and Roman Catholic denominations, and Presbyterian services are held in the school room by the minister at Lumsden. The Mataura river runs through the settlement of Garston, and the population at the census of 1901, was eighty-five. Garston forms part of the Wakatipu electorate, and is in the Kingston riding of the Lake county.