Pine Bush

Living in Pine Bush

Pine Bush is a Southland locality south of Gore in the farming country between the Mataura Valley and the coastal lowlands, where the name records the pine vegetation or the native bush remnant associated with the locality. Southland's bush names typically refer to the native vegetation that the early settlers found - the rimu, kahikatea and tōtara forest that once covered parts of the Southland plain - before the clearing work of the farming era converted most of it to pasture.

The farming around Pine Bush is eastern Southland's productive plains character: sheep, beef and dairy on the flat to gently rolling country south of Gore, with the Mataura Valley's influence providing the river-flat soils and drainage that the farming operations require. The locality sits in the working agricultural country between Gore's services and the coastal Southland communities.

The permanent population is the farming families on the surrounding properties, with Gore providing the services and schools for the locality's community. The school run to Gore handles the educational requirements, and the farming district's social connections run through Gore's institutions.

Pine Bush is southern Southland's farming plain, managing the land between the valley and the coast with the productivity that the district's flat country and reliable rainfall provide.

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Pine Bush

Schools in zone for Pine Bush

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

• Southland Adventist Christian School

  Full Primary · roll 123 · decile 4

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Pine Bush Weather

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