Pine Bush, New Zealand

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Pine Bush is a locality in the Southland Region of New Zealand's South Island. [Land Information New Zealand, [http://www.linz.govt.nz/apps/placenames/index.html?p=6647 "Place Name Detail: Pine Bush"] , "Geographic Placenames Database", accessed 16 November 2007.]

It is situated near the eastern bank of the lower Mataura River. From 1899 until 1966, the Tokanui Branch railway passed just south of Pine Bush, with a station in neighbouring Titiroa. ["New Zealand Railway and Tramway Atlas", fourth edition, edited by John Yonge (Essex: Quail Map Company, 1993), 30.] Other nearby settlements include Waimahaka to the south, Glenham and Mataura Island to the north, and across the Mataura, Gorge Road to the west.

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