Mataura is a town in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand. Mataura has a meat processing plant, and until 2000 it was the site of a large pulp and paper mill.
Mataura is also the setting for Dunedin crime fiction author Vanda Symon's debut novel, Overkill.
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