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Gore is a town and surrounding borough in the South Island of New Zealand. It is also the name of a district in the Southland region. The town of Gore is situated 64 km northeast of Invercargill and 70 km southwest of Balclutha. Close surrounding towns or places include Bluff, Dunedin and Invercargill.

Originally known as Longford, Gore was renamed after Sir Thomas Gore Browne, an early Governor of New Zealand. The second largest centre of population in Southland, and a service town for the surrounding farm communities. It is divided by the Mataura River into Gore and East Gore, the majority of the town being situated on the western banks of the river. The Main South Line railway from Dunedin to Invercargill runs through the town, though passenger services ceased in 2003. Gore was once a busy railway junction; the Waimea Plains Railway ran west to connect with the Kingston Branch in Lumsden, while the Waikaka Branch connected with the Main South Line nearby in McNab. One of New Zealand's most famous preserved trains is the Kingston Flyer, which takes its name from a passenger express that once ran between Kingston and Gore.

Gore is known in New Zealand folklore as the home of Hokonui moonshine. During the days of prohibition, the Hokonui Hills to the west of the town gained a reputation for the production of illicit alcohol.

Gore's local radio station Hokonui Gold broadcasts from within the town.

Gore is also well known for its connection with Country and Western music, with the annual New Zealand country music awards being held in the town. Gore has a sister city relationship with Tamworth, New South Wales, the "Country Music Capital of Australia".

The former East Gore Presbyterian Church is one of the two remaining wooden Gothic churches designed the eminent architect R A Lawson <ref name "Lawson">J.F. McArthur (1981 ). From the Kirk on the Hill. Gore Publishing Company.  . Built in 1881 and registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, the main building is currently used as a performance and lecture theatre and the hall, built later, is used as a studio and flat for visiting artists, the latter including the bedroom furniture from the Royal Suite commissioned for the Queen's Royal Tour to Southland in 1954. [1].

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1. ^ Visiting Artist Programme with New Zealand. Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sutherland Shire Council (Autumn 2004 ).

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Southland (Māori: Murihiku) is the name of New Zealand's southernmost region and is also the name of a district within that region.
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Invercargill (Waihōpai in Māori) is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost settlements in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region.
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Balclutha is a town in Otago, it lies towards the end of the Clutha River on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is about halfway between Dunedin and Invercargill on the Main South Line railway, State Highway 1 and the Southern Scenic Route.
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Sir Thomas Robert Gore Browne, CB, (July 3, 1807- April 17, 1887) was a Governor of St Helena, Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Tasmania and Governor of Bermuda.

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Browne was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.
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The Mataura River is in the Southland Region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is 190 kilometres in length.

The river's headwaters are located in mountains to the south of Lake Wakatipu. From there it flows southeast towards Gore, where it turns southward.
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The Main South Line, sometimes referred to as part of the South Island Main Trunk Railway, runs south from Lyttelton in New Zealand through Christchurch and down the east coast of the South Island to Invercargill via Dunedin.
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The Waimea Plains Railway was a secondary railway line (not a branch line) that linked the towns of Lumsden and Gore in northern Southland, New Zealand. It skirted the Hokonui Hills, and operated as a through route between 31 July 1880 and 1 April 1971, with the short section from
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The Kingston Branch was a major branch line railway in Southland, New Zealand. It formed part of New Zealand's national rail network for over a century: construction began in 1864, Kingston was reached in 1878, and it closed in 1979.
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Lumsden is a town in Southland, New Zealand. Lying in a gap in the surrounding hills, it is the location of a major junction halfway along the north-south road from Queenstown to Invercargill, where it is crossed by the east-west road from Gore to Te Anau.
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The Waikaka Branch was a branch line railway that ran through agricultural and gold-mining country in Southland, New Zealand. It was constructed in 1907 and 1908, and operated until 1962.
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Kingston Flyer is a vintage steam train operating in the South Island of New Zealand at the southern end of Lake Wakatipu. It uses 14 kilometres of preserved trackage that once formed a part of the Kingston Branch.
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Moonshine is a common slang term for home-distilled alcohol, especially in places where this production is illegal.

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Prohibition of alcohol, often shortened to the term prohibition, also known as Dry Law, refers to a sumptuary law in a given jurisdiction which prohibits alcohol.
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The Hokonui Hills, also known as The Hokonui Mountains or simply The Hokonui, are a range of hills in northern Southland, New Zealand. They rise to 600 metres above the surrounding Southland Plains, of which the hills mark a northern extremity.
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Hokonui Gold

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