Morton Mains

Living in Morton Mains

Morton Mains is a Southland locality on the farming plain west of Invercargill, in the flat dairy and sheep country that extends from the city toward the coast and the Waiau catchment. The name records the early runholding era's property designation, with the 'mains' referring to the home farm of an estate in the Scottish agricultural tradition, transplanted to the Southland plain with the rest of the district's Scottish nomenclature.

The farming around Morton Mains is the western Southland model: intensive dairy and sheep farming on the flat, well-watered country that the Southland plain supports, with the infrastructure of a district that has been converting agricultural output to export earnings continuously since the 1860s. The landscape here is the open Southland plains at their most characteristic: flat, green, sky-dominant and productive in every direction.

The permanent population is the farming families in the locality, with Invercargill providing the full range of services at the modest driving distances that the flat Southland roads allow. The city's schools, hospitals and commercial services are within easy reach for the families farming the plains around Morton Mains.

Children from Morton Mains attend local Southland primary schools or Invercargill schools, with the city's secondary options the established destination.

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Morton Mains

Schools in zone for Morton Mains

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

• 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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