For many purposes South Canterbury is considered a separate region, centred on the city of Timaru.

The title is used in New Zealand for the Headmaster of some independent schools, such as Lindisfarne College, and a number of state schools for boys, including Otago Boys ' High School, King's High School, Dunedin, Waitaki Boys ' High School, Timaru Boys ' High School, Palmerston North Boys ' High School and Southland Boys ' High School showing the Scots ' involvement in the foundation of those schools.

It is 80 kilometres south of Timaru and 120 kilometres north of Dunedin, on the Pacific coast, and State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connect it to both.

The flight is claimed to have been around 150 feet ( 45 m ) on his farm at Upper Waitohi, near Timaru in south Canterbury, New Zealand.

As with the Waimataitai lagoon the Washdyke Lagoon, which currently lies to the north of the Timaru port is undergoing erosion and may eventually breach causing loss of another lagoon environment.

The town is the third-largest urban centre in Canterbury, after Christchurch and Timaru.

Timaru ( Maori: Te Tihi-o-Maru ) is a major port in the southern Canterbury region of New Zealand, located 160 kilometres southwest of Christchurch and about 200 kilometres northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island.

The Timaru urban area is the second largest city in the Canterbury Region, after Christchurch.

The origin of the name ' Timaru ' is disputed.

Timaru is pronounced.

The mayor of Timaru is Janie Annear.

Timaru is an agricultural service town and port for the South Canterbury regional economy.

Timaru is one of the major cargo ports of the South Island, with a number of light manufacturing plants associated with the export and import trade.

Timaru is the second largest fishing port in New Zealand.

Timaru is located on State Highway One ( SH1 ), the main road route down the eastern coast of the South Island.

The Main South Line section of the South Island Main Trunk Railway runs through Timaru and is a significant freight corridor.

The Trevor Griffiths Rose Garden at Caroline Bay Park is a major feature of the Timaru Piazza development.

The Timaru Herald is the local daily newspaper for the district and has been published since the mid nineteenth century.

The region also supports a weekly community newspaper, The Timaru Courier which has a circulation of over 24, 000 copies and is delivered free every Thursday to local households.

* South Canterbury Rugby Football Union is based in Timaru.

It is about 140 km south of Christchurch, and inland from Timaru, which is 35 km to the south.

Timaru bluestone is an attractive building material, used both historically and to the present.

It is a grey basalt similar to Victorian bluestone, quarried near Timaru in the South Island.

The death of Richard Turnbull triggered a by-election in the Timaru electorate, which was won by Hall-Jones on 18 August 1890.

* one additional member for Timaru ( was formed as a new electorate )

Labour lost the subsequent Timaru by-election, with a candidate that did not suit " the conservative character of the electorate.

He represented Timaru in the House of Representatives until his resignation in October 1908.

Between 1949 and 1970, Timaru was serviced by the South Island Limited, one of the former New Zealand Railways Department's most prestigious trains.

Jones, his primary objective of ending the Muldoon government having been accomplished, and disappointed by the Party's electoral performance in the 1985 Timaru by-election, unilaterally made a decision to put the Party into recess.

The Chateau was designed by Timaru based architect Herbert Hall ( 1880-1939 ), who modelled his design on the Canadian Resort of Lake Louise designed a neo-Georgian structure of four stories and basement.

Over the next three years, the line between Dunedin and Christchurch was completed ; Christchurch and Timaru were linked on 4 February 1876, followed by Oamaru on a year later, and the difficult section between Oamaru and Dunedin was finally completed on 7 September 1878.

INL ’ s acquisition activity commenced in the 1970s including the purchase of Truth ( NZ ) Ltd, Wellington ’ s evening paper The Evening Post ( which merged with The Dominion in 2002 to form The Dominion Post ), the Evening Standard ( Manawatu ), The Southland Times, The Press, The Nelson Evening Mail, The Marlborough Express, The Timaru Herald and most of the newspapers owned by NZ News Ltd.

The airline was established and started operations in 1920 as New Zealand Aero Transport Company, at Timaru by Rodolph Lysaght Wigley.

To split Timaru into two electorates was proposed by the Timaru incumbent, Edward Stafford.

He was born in Washkdyke in 1970 near Timaru by Grey William out of Waybrooke who won the ' Broodmare of the Year ' title in the 1977-78 season.

* 1927 stallion, Chrysology ( by Psychology ), won Timaru Cup

* Other ports: Whangarei, Devonport ( Auckland ), Gisborne, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Nelson, Picton, Westport, Greymouth, Timaru, Bluff

The University's College of Education maintains additional small campuses in Nelson, Tauranga and Timaru, and " teaching centres " in Greymouth, New Plymouth, Rotorua and Timaru.

A chestnut gelding, Phar Lap was foaled on 4 October 1926 in Seadown near Timaru in the South Island of New Zealand.

As an example, the creation of a port in Timaru, New Zealand in the late 1800s led to a significant change in the longshore drift along the South Canterbury coastline.

* Timaru, New Zealand

* Timaru, New Zealand ( 1990 )

* Historic images of Timaru from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

* Seaview, Canterbury, a suburb of Timaru, New Zealand

Several hundred 140J sedans entered New Zealand through the Port of Timaru for the South Island market and all were presold before they arrived.

In 1960, meetings began in Timaru that led to the establishment of Timaru New Life Centre.

Temuka is a town on New Zealand's Canterbury Plains, 15 kilometres north of Timaru and 142 km south of Christchurch.

* Timaru, New Zealand ( July 30, 1998 )

On 21 November 2006 several large pieces were seen just 60 km off the coast of Timaru, New Zealand.

Colin John McCahon ( 1 August 1919, Timaru, New Zealand-27 May 1987, Auckland ) was a prominent New Zealand artist.

Evans ' cartoons appear daily in three major New Zealand newspapers, The Manawatu Standard, The Timaru Herald and The Christchurch Press, and his Edna character, the ubiquitous farmer's wife, has been running fortnightly since 1976 in New Zealand's largest farming newspaper Rural News.