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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Kingston is situated at the south end of Lake Wakatipu, and is the terminus of the railway from Invercargill, eighty-seven miles distant. It lies at an elevation of 270 feet above the lake level, on a terrace or moraine, and is the starting point for the fine steamers that ply to Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Kinloch, a passage that commands very magnificent scenery, little altered from the primeval conditions of nature. Kingston has excellent hotel accommodation for travellers and tourists; it has a telegraph service, daily mail communication with Invercargill, and a money-order office and post office savings bank. Queenstown is twenty-five miles distant, and thence to the head of the lake, is thirty-three miles. The lake steamers are comfortable and well conducted, and good meals are served on board at two shillings per meal. The country in the neighbourhood of Kingston is both agricultural and pastoral in character, and the climate is healthy and bracing. The local railway station stands at an elevation of 1,023 feet above the level of the sea. The Kingston riding of the Lake county had a population of 312 at the census of 1901, and of that number, sixty-one resided in Kingston, and a similar number in the vicinity. Kingston is a portion of the electoral district of Wakatipu.