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

Woodlands

Woodlands is a flourishing settlement on the main north road from Invercargill towards Dunedin, and is also served by the Invercargill-Dunedin line of railway. The district surrounding the township is devoted to agriculture and sheepfarming, and of the bush which originally covered the country, little is now left. Woodlands has a creamery, a stilton cheese factory, old and extensive meat works, a Hotel and three stores; and at the railway station the New Zealand Pine Company has a large timber yard, which is connected with the sawmill at Mabel Bush, whence it obtains its supplies. The local railway station is also a post and telephone office combined, and mails are received, and despatched daily. Woodlands is twelve miles from Invercargill, by a good cycling road or by railway, and the station stands at an elevation of 112 feet above sea level. The district is partly in the Waihopai, and partly in the Awarua, riding of the county of Southland. At the census of 1901, the population in the latter riding was 111, and in the former ninety-six, with forty-six additional persons in the vicinity. Woodlands is part of the Awarua electoral district.