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This flag with a blue and green logo separated by a winding shoreline dates
from 2018 on and replaces the previous flag.
John Moody, 5 January
2022
Timaru District is a local government district in New Zealand's South
Island administered by the Timaru District Council. It is part of the
Canterbury region. There are 48,400 inhabitants in the district and the main
town is Timaru (28,600 inhabitants).
Olivier Touzeau, 7 November 2021
The district is a fairly thin sliver of the central South Island, stretching
from Timaru itself on the east coast inland across the Canterbury plains to the
Southern Alps (which explains the design of the logo). The District has an area
of about 2500 square km (1000 square mi) and a population of just under 50,000,
and is part of the Canterbury Region. Main industries include farming (sheep and
cattle), and Timaru itself is a fishing and cargo port, with associated light
industry.
The port town of Timaru is still widely regarded as a city and
often called as such, although it lost its official status during local
government restructuring in the late 1980s. It has a population of about 30,000.
It sits on the coast of Caroline Bay, about halfway between the cities of
Christchurch and Dunedin. Its name (pronounced with the stress on the U) is
Maori, and either means "The sheltered place" (Te Maru) or "The shade/shelter of
the cabbage tree" (Ti Maru).
Most of the rest of the district's
population is close to the coast, with other towns including Temuka and
Geraldine.
James Dignan, 5 January 2022
![[Timaru, New Zealand ]](../images/n/nz-timar.gif)
image by Olivier Touzeau, 7 November 2021
A flag made of the former logo
before 2015 of Timaru District Council could be spotted on the council's seat
until 2019:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/111105151/timaru-district-councils-flag-to-get-makeover
"It might be looking a bit shabby at the moment, but the flag near the top
of the Timaru District Council's headquarters on George St, Timaru, is due for
a makeover. The flag, which flies just below the Light of Remembrance, has
been in tatters for some time now, and council spokesman Stephen Doran said
the rough weather at the end of 2018 had taken its toll. "We're currently
working on procuring on a new flag with the updated logo, or possibly the town
crest." He said the replacement would cost probably "a couple of hundred
bucks" as it was just a fabric print." "
A picture before it got tattered:
https://www.facebook.com/TimaruDC/photos/434823766685330
Photographs taken since 2019 show that the flag was in fact replaced by a NZ
national flag:
https://www.facebook.com/TimaruDC/photos/1332562776911420
https://www.facebook.com/TimaruDC/photos/1820067638160929
Olivier Touzeau, 7 November 2021
