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Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

The Waihao

The Waihao.

The Waihao rises on the south-western flanks of Mount Nimrod, drains the western slopes of the Hunter range, and receives also considerable additions from the range which accompanies the eastern banks of the Hakataramea. This eastern main branch and its more southern affluent, the western Waihao, are two mountain streams flowing first between high palæeozoic ranges in deep rocky channels, and afterwards among the younger formations, where they have cut picturesque gorges in the limestone rocks. For the last 10 miles of its course the valley opens more, and the river-bed, for a few miles nearest the coast, is generally dry during the greater portion of the year, but showing from its broad shingle-bed that it is liable to heavy floods, when the stream is about a quarter of a mile broad.