Greenhills is the name of a flag railway station and settlement on the Invercargill-Bluff line of railway. It is twelve miles from Invercargill and five miles from the Bluff, is in the Awarua riding of the county of Southland, and in the electorate of Awarua, and the population at the census of 1901 was 133. The township is prettily situated, and the beautifully green hills in the neighbourhood thoroughly justify its name. It is a favourite resort for picnic parties, and there are numerous pretty patches of bush. The post office is conducted at the local store, and there is a daily mail service. The public school is attended by about thirty-five children, and the Primitive Methodist church holds a service each Sunday afternoon in a small, but suitable, building of its own.

Mr. Alexander Clark , Ganger of Section 72, Invercargill-Bluff railway, was born at Fowlis Easter, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1857, and came to New Zealand with his parents in 1858, when they landed at Lyttel-ton, where they stayed for three years. The family then moved to the Bluff, where Mr. Clark went to school for a short while, and afterwards joined his father at carpentering for about two years. He joined the railway service in 1877, has been on the Invercargill-Bluff line ever since, and took charge of section 72, as ganger in 1883. Mr Clark has been a member of the Greenhills school committee for six years, and secretary for the last four years. He was married, in 1892, to a daughter of the late Mr. Mahoney, County Cork, Ireland, and has five sons and two daughters.

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