page_title: Otautau
section_title: Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle
hierarchical_section_title: Otautau / Early history / Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle
caption_attribution_description: Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle (Newspaper) logo circa 1905.
context_page_description: Otautau is a small farming, forestry and milling town located inland on the western edge of the Southland Plains of New Zealand on the banks of the Aparima River. Otautau is located approximately 40 km north west of Invercargill. The average elevation of Otautau is 60 meters.
  Otautau had a population of 672 at the 2013 New Zealand census, a decrease of 81 people since the 2006 census. There were 351 males and 318 females. Figures have been rounded and may not add up to totals. 89.3% were European/Pākehā, 12.1% were Māori, 1.4% were Pacific peoples and 1.4% were Asian.
  Otautau is also known as “The Heart of Western Southland”. Otautau Museum, based in the historic courthouse building in Main Street, focuses on the photographic and family history of the district, as well as the archives of local organisations.
  The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of [an] ear pendant" for the name Ōtautau.
context_section_description: Otautau was home to the Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle from 1905 until publication ceased in 1946. The Otautau Standard was a weekly newspaper started by Frank Hyde. In 1906 Hyde sold the newspaper to John Fisher. The Fisher family remained in charge until its closure.
caption: Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle (May 1905).
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