Kakanui North . This settlement is on the north bank of the Kakanui river close to its connfluence with the sea. The township is seven miles from Oamaru and four miles from the Maheno railway station. It has a hotel, a store, and a blacksmith's shop, and the business of the post office is conducted at the store, where there is a telephone bureau. The educational requirements of the north side of the river are met by the school which is on the southern bank. There is a Wesleyan church and a hall in the settlement. The population of Kakanui North was 126 at the census of 1901. The township is in the Kakanui riding of the Waitaki county.

Kakanui Post Office , which was first opened in the seventies, has been conducted at the local store at Kakanui North since 1887, and the Telephone Bureau has been in operation for a similar period. Mails are received and despatched daily The office is also a Post Office Savings Bank and Money Order Office, and it also pays the Old Age pensions due in the district.

Mr. George William Cleverley , Postmaster and Telephonist at Kakanui, was born at Oamaru on the 2nd of January, 1880. He was educated at the Oamaru South School, and was brought up to the business of a bootmaker. Subsequently, he became a lime burner, but owing to an accident by the explosion of a gelinglite cartridge, whereby he lost his left hand and his right eye. Mr. Cleverley had to abandon that line of life. Accordingly, on the 1st of January, 1903, he took over the Kekanui store and post office. As a volunteer, he served in the No. 1 Battalion, and afterwards in the Queen's Rifles, at Oamaru. Mr. Cleverley was married, in 1902, to a daughter of Mr. George Southgate, of Kakanui.

The Kakanui Wesleyan Church is situated at Kakanui North. It has a site of a quarter of an acre, and the building, which is of wood, with a shingle roof, has accommodation for one hundred worshippers. The services are held every Sunday evening, and are supplied from Oamaru.

Cleverley, George William , General Storekeeper, Kakanui North. This business was established in the early days of settlement in the district, and is the only local store which maintains a full general stock. The building is of wood, and includes a large corner shop, with the post office, and a private residence. The proprietor is further referred to as postmaster for the district.

Packwood, Eaton , Dairy Farmer, Kakanui North. Mr. Packwood was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1843, and became conductor on a coach that, in the early days, connected the London and North-Western and Great Northern railways. Afterwards he learned the business of a landscape gardener, and was apprenticed as such for five years, and held important situations in the Old Land before coming to the colonies. Mr. Packwood landed at Moreton Bay, Queensland, in 1885, and was engaged to lay out a large market garden at Ipswich. Subsequently, he worked on the construction of the first line of railway made in Queensland. In 1868 he arrived in New Zealand, spent a year on the West Coast diggings, and afterwards walked across the mountains to the river Selwyn in Canterbury, and on to Temuka. He became gardener at the Levels station, and was afterwards employed in Dunedin in a similar capacity. For a year later he was employed in the Albion Soap Works, and removed to Kakanui in 1371, under engagement to the New Zealand Meat Preserving Company to lay out gardens round the manager's residence, and held the position for four years. Mr. Packwood settled in Kakanui North, on a freehold section of four acres in the township. As an Oddfellow, he is attached to the Kakanui Lodge, in which he has passed the chairs, and has held the position of Permanent Secretary. Mr. Packwood was married, in 1872, to a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Gaffney, of Derbyshire, England. Mrs Packwood died in 1884, leaving one daughter.