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Kaiwera is a rural settlement and community in Southland, New Zealand.

Kaiwera
Town
Coordinates: 46.169°S 169.097°E / -46.169; 169.097
Country	New Zealand
Region	Southland
District	Gore District
Ward	Kaiwera-Waimumu Ward
Government
• Territorial Authority	Gore District Council
• Regional council	Southland Regional Council

It includes Nithdale Station, a beef, dairy, sheep and forestry farm,[1] with a Romney and Suffolk Stud.[2] It accommodates visitors with a self-contained homestead and farm tours.[3]

Kaiwera Downs Wind Farm is located south-west of Kaiwera.

Kaiwera is part of the wider Waimumu-Kaiwera statistical area.[4]

History

Kaiwera School opened about 1879, and closed in 2009.[5]

By 1907, the local community was holding an annual picnic and sports day at the settlement.[6]

In 1924, Charles Tripp (a grandson of the runholder Charles Tripp) took over the Nithdale Station farm.[7] He converted the rundown 1,478 hectare property, dominated by gorse and rabbits, into a productive farm, which he worked until his death in 1991.[8] Andrew and Heather Tripp has farmed the property since then.[1]

In 2015, a person was killed in a farm accident in Kaiwera.[9]

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