taken the liberty of copying and pasting a previous reply
Funny you should say it goes on and on. The closest town to Greytown is Carterton it is a bit bigger I guess you would say .. but it probably has twice as long a main st as any town it's size in NZ. The founders thought great place for a town built a road then found the Maori would only sell them land on one side of the road, so they had to build a long one sided town .. lol .. then eventually the Maori sold the other side so that got built on. Takes so long to drive through