Last Updated: 27th Jul 2026
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Southland, New Zealand
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Last Updated: 27th Jul 2026
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740m
-45.34676, 168.43541
E1242421, N4968385
Beech Hut was built around 1905 by the owners of Fairlight Station. The hut was used by musterers in the 1920s during the autumn muster. Teams of men with dogs and horses travelled up the Mataura Valley to Beech Hut, and from there drove sheep across the steep terrain to Dog Box Hut in Eyre Creek on foot.
Beech Hut is simply constructed from beech saplings cut from the surrounding forest and driven into the ground, and is clad and roofed with corrugated iron.
McIntyre, R. (2008) Whose high country?: a history of the South Island high country of New Zealand (Penguin Books).
Herries Beattie, J. (1979) The Southern Runs (Times Printing Service for the Gore Historical Society).
Herries Beattie, J. (1983) More about the Southern Runs (Gore District Historical Society).
Heating, Mattresses, Water from stream, Water supply
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