A NEW WATERFALL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1037, 10 December 1912, Page 3

A NEW WATERFALL.

Dunkdin, Dec. 7

Referring to the new waterfall discovered in the Tangarakau district, the Rev. C. Bush King, curate of St. Matthew’s, says : In 1907 I was there on mission duly. While at Maungaroa I went over Loveday Saddle, and hearing a subdued roar of water each time I asked the settlers about it, but they ascribed it to the wind in the gorge. He was not satisfied, so he started out from Talu in search, leaving his horse on account of the roughness of the country. He proceeded afoot and discerned the head of the falls, which are 500 ft. high, in cascade form. In his opinion the water is that of the Tangarakau river. He reported the discovery to Sir Wm. Hall-Jones, who replied that, as far as Cabinet knew, Mr Bush King was the first white man to traverse that part of the country.

An interesting scenic discovery was made a few days ago by Mr Parkin, surveyor, and his party (writes the Taumarunui correspondent of the Auckland ‘‘Star”), They were surveying in the Waitaanga Valley, about ten miles in a direct line from Mangaroa, Ohura, and, hearing falling water, made their way through the bush until they reached a waterfall measuring 3n feet wide and with a clean, straight drop of 300 feet. Rumours that such a fall existed had been current, but previously no white man had located it. The roar of the water as it poured over the fall is decribed as deafening, and the sight of a most awe-inspiring character. As the Public Works Department is making roads in the district it ought not to be difficult to arrange for a road direct to the falls, and, with an accommodation house erected, another popular tourist resort would be available,