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Winton

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Winton

Like most Southland towns, Winton remains primarily a service centre for local farms. The ‘bottom pub’, dating from 1889 but now housed in an early 20th-century building, is at left, next to the Combined Rural Traders Farm Centre.

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David Grant, Southland region – Southland people, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20151/winton (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by David Grant, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.