Kamahi

Living in Kamahi

Kamahi is a Southland locality in the farming country between the Mataura and Oreti valleys, in the flat pastoral plain that connects eastern and western Southland's farming districts. The name applies the native tree to the locality in the South Island naming tradition where the vegetation that early settlers found or the landscape features they encountered became the place names that subsequent generations inherited.

The farming around Kamahi is the Southland plains model: dairy and sheep on the flat, well-drained country that the district's reliable rainfall makes productively straightforward. The broad Southland plain here has the open, sky-dominant character of flat farming country where the horizon is unobstructed in most directions and the weather arrives without warning from the west.

The permanent population is the farming families on the surrounding properties, with the Southland district's service centres providing the facilities that the locality requires. The social infrastructure runs through the farming community's shared institutions, from the A&P shows to the school networks that rural Southland maintains.

Kamahi is Southland's agricultural plain in its working form: productive, practical and organised around the dairy seasons and the sheep calendar that have defined this country for 150 years.

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Kamahi

Schools in zone for Kamahi

Children living in Kamahi have a guaranteed right to enrol at these schools, based on Ministry of Education home zones.

• Edendale School (Southland)

  Contributing · roll 110 · decile 8

• Verdon College

  Secondary (Year 7-15) · roll 716 · decile 6

• Southland Adventist Christian School

  Full Primary · roll 123 · decile 4

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Kamahi Weather

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Kamahi Community