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Dacre, New Zealand

Town on the South Island, New Zealand

Town on the South Island, New Zealand

|New Zealand Dacre is a small town in the South Island of New Zealand. It is situated on the Southland Plains between Invercargill and Edendale on State Highway 1. In Dacre, SH 1 is met by (Lorneville – Dacre Road), which runs west to Makarewa via Rakahouka. Nearby villages include Mabel Bush to the northwest and Woodlands to the southeast. Dacre is 25 km north east of Invercargill, the closest city. The Main South Line railway passes just to the south of Dacre. It is a dairy farming community, that currently has a community hall and a small engine garage.

:"[Dacre] has a foreign appearance but by whom given the writer cannot say. (The old name of this locality was Halfway Bush, so named by Mr W. H. S. Roberts because it was midway between his house at Titipua possibly a variation in the spelling of [Te Tipua] and that of Mr McClymont's.)"

From 1863 until 1865, Dacre had a police station, owing to its strategic location between Invercargill and the Otago Goldfields. After the gold booms ended, the station was closed permanently, during a period of retrenchment which significantly reduced the number of police in Southland.

Education

Dacre School, a Year 1 to 8 state primary school, operated in Dacre from 1900 and 2008. It was established in a former hotel.

When the school celebrated its centenary in 1999 it had two teachers. When it closed in 2008 it had just five students.

References

References

  1. (2 September 1912). "Place Names – Southern New Zealand". Mataura Ensigtn.
  2. Poole, Michele. (2002). "The Southern Beat: A History of Policing Southland and Lakes District". Craig Printing Company Limited.
  3. "Dacre School (3942) Closure Notice". [[New Zealand Government]].
  4. "108-year era ends as Dacre Primary closes its doors". [[The Southland Times]].
  5. (1905). "Dacre". The Cyclopedia Company, Limited.
  6. (May 25, 2015). "Southland places – Around Invercargill".
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