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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.

Mr. Henry John Fazakerlay Burrowes , Engineer of the Parawa Flaxmilling Company's Flaxmill, was born in Dunedin in 1875, and educated at Waikaka. For one year he was in the Otago Paper Mills at Wood-haugh, and then followed general work
Gerstenkern, photo.Mr. H. J. F. Burrowes.

Gerstenkern, photo.
Mr. H. J. F. Burrowes.

for some time. Prior to starting work at the Parawa mill in 1903 he had been working for a considerable time on dredges in the Waikaka and Charlton districts, and was engineer on one dredge. Mr Burrowes was for some time in the Gore Rifles.