Pos S  46° 11.927'
E 169° 21.735'

Other locations are not quite as easily defined for Southland was split off from Otago with considerable disagreement about where the actual boundary should be.

As a result the border does some quite amazing zig-zags and I suspect this was to accommodate property owners' desires to be on the one side or the other...

The cemetery is not difficult to find; assuming an approach from the north continue through Clinton on Highway 1 and look for a small lane about a hundred meters on to the left. While it is beautifully kept some of the stones are made of a material that does not retain the information so very well. I have a great many photographs in the 'too hard' folder!

We have now gone to a live on-line database called MOP ('Myra's Other Place') and all the older records listed are being steadily being copied over. In this case we did not have a page for Mangapai before now so you will have to go directly to MOP. The MOP database has a lot more than just cemetery records and is worth checking out here where you can log in as Guest password guest.

To find a person enter the surname in the target box and presss ENTER. This will list every case of that surname across all cemeteries. To list all persons in a particular cemetery enter the name of the cemetery and change the pull-down option immediately to the left from LAST NAME to CEMETERY then ENTER.