Mokotua

Living in Mokotua

Mokotua is a Southland locality on the flat farming plain near Invercargill, where the city's agricultural hinterland supports the dairy and sheep farming that the Southland plain produces at the scale the district's soils and climate allow. The Māori name belongs to the area, one of the Southland locality names that survived the European settlement era's extensive renaming of the district's geography.

The farming around Mokotua is the Invercargill hinterland model: intensive dairy farming on the flat, well-watered Southland country, with the dairy processing industry in Invercargill providing the market connection that the milk requires. The Southland plain here is the agricultural plain at its most productive, flat and green with the reliable rainfall that makes Southland farming different from the more variable climate of the North Island's comparable regions.

Mokotua's proximity to Invercargill gives the locality access to the city's full services at the distances that the flat Southland roads make easy. The farming families in the area run their operations with the city's services in reach and the rural character of the plain as their working environment.

Children from Mokotua attend Invercargill's schools, with the city's full secondary range available.

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Mokotua

Schools in zone for Mokotua

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

• Rimu School

  Full Primary · roll 104 · decile 9

• St Patrick's School (Invercargill)

  Contributing · roll 272 · decile 3

• Verdon College

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

• Southland Adventist Christian School

  Full Primary · roll 123 · decile 4

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