MOUNT EGMONT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 226, 6 January 1911, Page 5

MOUNT EGMONT

THE LATEST DISCOVERY. WATERFALLS BETTER THAN DAWSON'S FALLS. In view of the large amount of exploration which has been carried on round Mount Egmont it seems a bold thing for anybody to say that he has discovered something on the mountain which, up to the present, has remained hidden to the many eager eyes which have from time to time searched the mountain thoroughly in quest of something out of the ordinary in the way of scenery. But Mr. G. Moran, lately engaged with Mr. Christenscn in shifting the Mountain House, claims to have come upon a waterfall which has greater beauty than even the famous Dawson's Falls. On New Year's Day Messrs. Moran and Christensen were out on the mountain, when they struck the Manganui river, aud saw a remarkable series of waterfalls. The main fall, says Mr. Moran, is about seventy feet high, and there are two smaller ones. Above the big fall towers an almost perpendicular wall of rock about sixteen hundred feet high, forming a fine background. At present there is very little water coming over the Dawson's Falls, but over the newly-uiscovered fall the full body of the Miinganui river passes. On the waters of the river were seen numbers of mountain duck, which were so tame that they could almost be stroked. The falls can be reached from the Mountain House in nooi't an hofir and a half, and Mr. Chrisirusi.n has already begun to cut a track ilirmigl-. Steps have been taken to bring the falls under the notice of the Tourist Department.

Interviewed on the subject, Mr. W. P. Kirkwood said that so far as he could make out from the description given, the falls were in reality not a new discovery, but were the Curtis Falls, the existence of which has been known for a good many years.

Not n great many people have seen the Curtis Fulls, and as they are almost inaccessible, the members of the Mountain House Committee should visit the place as early as possible to exactly determine the value of the find, and to decide what, if anything, should be done to improve access.—Stratford Post.