Pleasant Point, New Zealand
- Pleasant Point, New Zealand
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Pleasant Point is a small country town in southern Canterbury, New Zealand, some 19km inland from Timaru. A service town for the surrounding farming district, it has a population of 1,222 and one of its main attractions is the heritage railway, the Pleasant Point Museum and Railway, which operates steam locomotives and one of only two Model T Ford railcar replicas in the world. For almost one hundred years, the Fairlie branch line railway passed through the town. It closed on 2 March 1968, and the heritage line utilises 2.5 km of track along the branch's old route.
Pleasant Point is also known for glassblowing, taxidermy and blacksmithing, and Māori rock art can be viewed nearby. Vineyards have also been established in the area.
The town gained brief notoriety in the summer of 1977 after the murder of local mechanic Geoffrey Stevens. Stevens was stabbed in the face with a screwdriver by a disgruntled customer. [Morris, D. "Murder Shocks Town: Pleasant No More" "The Timaru Herald", January 16, 1977]
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External links
* [http://www.southisland.org.nz/pleasant_point.asp Central South Island Tourism's page on Pleasant Point]
* [http://www.timaru.govt.nz/index.asp?sidenav=tdnav.html&mainpage=td/plpt/ Timaru District Council's page on Pleasant Point]
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