Mabel Bush

Living in Mabel Bush

Mabel Bush is a Southland locality that someone named after a woman called Mabel who had a bush on her property, and the resulting place name is either the most personal or the most whimsical in the district depending on your position on Victorian first names. The locality sits in the farming country south of Winton, in the flat Southland plains that extend toward Invercargill, and Mabel - whoever she was - left behind a place name of greater durability than most people achieve.

The farming around Mabel Bush is the southern Southland plains model: dairy and sheep on the flat, well-watered country that the district supports between Winton and the city. The locality has the productive, working-farm character of Southland's agricultural plain, where the land has been in continuous production long enough to have lost the bush that gave the place its name while retaining the name regardless.

Winton provides the services and Invercargill the full city range, and the flat Southland roads make both accessible at the distances that the farming families in the Mabel Bush locality consider routine. The community connections run through Winton's institutions.

Children from Mabel Bush attend Winton's schools. Mabel's bush is gone. Mabel is not forgotten.

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Mabel Bush

Schools in zone for Mabel Bush

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

• Hedgehope School

  Full Primary · roll 53 · decile 9

• Central Southland College

  Secondary (Year 9-15) · roll 686 · decile 6

• Verdon College

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

• Southland Adventist Christian School

  Full Primary · roll 123 · decile 4

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