Otautau is a small farming, forestry and milling town located inland on the western edge of the Southland Plains of New Zealand on the banks of the Aparima River.[4] Otautau is located approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) north west of Invercargill. The average elevation of Otautau is 60 metres.[5]
Otautau is also known as "The Heart of Western Southland" as can be seen on the roadside sign photo below. Otautau township has one building registered with Pouhere Taonga Heritage New Zealand.[6] This is the historic courthouse building in Main Street from 1908, which currently houses the district's small museum and some archives from local institutions and businesses.[7]
The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of [an] ear pendant" for the name Ōtautau.[8]
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River. Otautau is located approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) north west of Invercargill. The average elevation of Otautau is 60 metres. Otautau is also...
already [1851—59] replaced the British Pound (with the Canadian Dollar). "Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Vol. XVIX, Iss. 971, 11 March 1924...
Tuatapere, Otautau and Thornbury. The Te Araroa Trail runs through the forest. The highest point of the range is Bald Hill, west of Otautau, and is used...
of the Supreme Court (now High Court) in 1958. Hardie Boys was born in Otautau on 8 June 1903, the son of Frederick William Boys, a Primitive Methodist...
NZHPT Category I listing Otautau Museum museum and archive for Otautau and surrounding districts Otautau 146 Main Street, Otautau 9610 2010-10-15 NZHPT Category...
Retrieved 28 January 2017. "Corporal Leslie Cupples wins the Military Medal". Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle. 30 October 1917. p. 3. Retrieved...
inaugural 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup. Apiata grew up in Otautau where she attended Otautau School and Central Southland College. She took up rugby while...
was a New Zealand teacher, community worker and editor. She was born in Otautau, Southland, New Zealand on 27 July 1909. A writer herself in her early...
Her husband died in 1914, and she died at the home of her daughter in Otautau on 24 January 1930. Macdonald, Charlotte. "Ellen Crowe". Dictionary of...
thousand-year-old Kasuga Shrine collapsed into ruins "Typhoon in Japan". Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle. 24 December 1912. p. 1. Of the merchant...
Anzac Commemorative Medallion. Victor Manson Spencer, PTE, b. 1894 in Otautau, Southland. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal; Victory Medal, New Zealand...
"Declaration of Result of Poll for the Electoral District of Wallace". Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle. Vol. XXVII, no. 1349. 15 December...
"Declaration of Result of Poll for the Electoral District of Wallace". Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle. Vol. XXVII, no. 1349. 15 December...
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