The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Parawa
Parawa.
Parawa flag station is the centre of an agricultural district, in which mining and flaxmilling are also carried on. The station, which is on the Invercargill-Kingston line of railway, stands at an altitude of 860 feet above sea level. It is sixty-six miles from Invercargill, and sixteen miles from Lumsden. Postal and telephonic business is conducted at the local hotel, and mails are received, and despatched, daily. The population of Parawa, at the census of 1901, was sixty, and the district is in the Wakatipu electorate, and in the Oreti riding of the county of Southland.
Parawa Flaxmilling Company's Mill (I. W. Raymond and Co., Invercargill), Parawa. This mill is situated about a mile from Parawa railway siding, in a gorge of the Mataura. Cutting rights are held over 13,000 acres, and the flax supplies fibre of exceptionally good quality. The plant comprises an eight horsepower portable engine, a Pelton wheel of ten horse-power, and the latest stripping and scutching machinery. About twenty persons are employed.
Gerstenkern, photo.
Mr. H. J. F. Burrowes.