Lumsden, New Zealand
Lumsden is a town in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand. Lumsden is situated in the north of the Waimea Plains on the Oreti River. The village had the Census in the year 2001 453 permanent residents. The surveyor John Turnbull Thomson was due to a curve of the Oreti River to the place the name Elbow, later the place after the Mayor of Invercargill George Lumsden (1815-1904) has been renamed.
The local farmer George Chewings marketed in 1887 he discovered a new variety of the ordinary Rotschwingels, Festuca rubra subsp. commutata, which became known as " Chewings Fescue " in the English language and well suited as a pasture grass. His seed was harvested in large quantities to Lumsden and exported to overseas.
Transport
Both the running in the north -south State Highway 6 from Queenstown to Invercargill and the running east -west State Highway 94 from Gore to Te Anau pass through the town.
Lumsden was also an important railway junction in the past. The Kingston branch line from Invercargill proceeded in a north-south direction through Lumsden, west went the Mossburn - side rail and to the east the Waimea Plains Railway, which connected Lumsden Gore in the Main South Line. 1971, the largest part of the Waimea Plains Railway was closed, only 16 km from Lumsden by Balfour were still in operation until 1978. 1979 the railway line was closed north to Kingston after you looked at the repair of flood damage as non-economic. The Mossburn branch line and the connection to the south to Invercargill closed in December 1982. The station is now used as a tourist information center. Otherwise remained of the role of the site as a railway junction little get.
Education
Lusmden has a primary school and a secondary school. The Lumsden School is a co-educational primary school for grades 1 to 6 and in 2009 had a decile rating of 5 and 82 students. The Northern Southland College is a college for grades 7 - 15 and in 2009 had a decile rating of 7 and 168 students.
People
The New Zealand hockey player Cathy Baker ( born October 16, 1957) and the New Zealand racing driver Matt Marshall (born 10 November 1990) was born in Lumsden.