Kapuka South is a locality in the Southland Region

Southland Region

Southland is New Zealand's southernmost region and is also a district within that region. It consists mainly of the southwestern portion of the South Island and Stewart Island / Rakiura...

 of New Zealand

New Zealand

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's South Island

South Island

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. It is situated on Toetoes Bay

Toetoes Bay

Toetoes Bay is the easternmost of three large bays lying on the Foveaux Strait coast of Southland, New Zealand, the others being Te Waewae Bay and Oreti Beach. Thirty kilometres in length, the bay is the southern end of the Awarua Plain, an area of swampy land stretching inland for about fifteen...

 and Waituna Lagoon. Kapuka

Kapuka, New Zealand

Kapuka is a locality in the Southland Region of New Zealand's South Island. It is situated between Mokotua to the west and Ashers to the east on the Southern Scenic Route; Oteramika is to the north, and Kapuka South, Waituna Lagoon, and Toetoes Bay are to the south.- Economy :Agriculture figures...

 and Ashers

Ashers

Ashers is a locality in the Southland Region of New Zealand's South Island. It is situated east of Invercargill on the Southern Scenic Route as it runs between Kapuka and Gorge Road. Other nearby settlements include Oteramika to the north and Kapuka South to the south...

 are to the north on the Southern Scenic Route

Southern Scenic Route

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.

Economy

Agriculture

Agriculture

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 figures prominently in Kapuka South's economy due to its rural location. Significant lignite

Lignite

Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad,is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere between coal and peat...

 coal

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

 deposits are also located in the vicinity of Kapuka South. The Ashers-Waituna coalfield

Coalfield

A coalfield is an area of certain uniform characteristics where coal is mined. The criteria for determining the approximate boundary of a coalfield are geographical and cultural, in addition to geological...

 contains roughly 746 tonne

Tonne

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s of recoverable coal. Exploratory work has been undertaken, but commercial mining has not yet taken place.

Education

Kapuka South formerly had a primary school, Kapuka South School. It was open in the first half of the 20th century.
After its closure, the building became the Kapuka South Hall and between 2006 - 2008 became a Clay Target Gun Club.