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Mutton Town Creek, some considerable distance upstream. Alms, a butcher from the Nevis had been swimming cattle across the river when he had been thrown from his horse and washed away. The body was buried in an unmarked grave and the gravesite remained untended. Later in that same year a miner named
William Rigney arrived at Horseshoe Bend, and with John Ord erected a fence of rough manuka poles around the previously untended grave. Rigney obtained a piece of black pine and made a simple headstone for the grave. With a four-inch nail he inscribed the words "Somebody's Darling lies buried here." In 1903 a marble headstone was erected. William Rigney died in 1912 and was buried beside "Somebody's Darling."
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Of those at least 15 years old, 9 (11.1%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 30 (37.0%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $ 26,300, compared with $ 31,800 nationally. 12 people (14.8%) earned over $ 70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of
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Early in 1865 the body of a young man was discovered at Rag Beach, upstream and on the opposite side of the river from the present site of the Lonely Graves. An inquest held on 22 February 1865 in the
Horseshoe Hotel determined the body to be that of Charles Alms who had fallen in the river at
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Millers Flat in 1925 and was the terminus for approximately two and a half years, until the section to Roxburgh was opened. The line was closed in 1968, though the town's station platform and some of the railway
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Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement. It covers 0.99 km (0.38 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 90 as of June 2023, with a population density of 91 people per km. It is part of the much larger
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Millers Flat School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 students, with a roll of 32 as of August 2024.
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