Hill. — TJic Great Wairarapa : A Lost River. 



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An inspection of the areas that now form the river-basins shown in 

 map fig. 2 will supply the fullest evidence of a contemporaneous past in the 

 shingle, pumice, sand, and vegetable deposits that are found wdthin them. 

 In Poverty Bay, the Kaiti Hills, the lower hills on the Whataupoko, the 

 hills near Ormond, Te Karaka, and numerous others abound with facts 

 to show the state of the country before the present plain and river-valley 

 were in existence. Similar evidence is forthcoming in the case of the Wairoa, 

 Mohaka, and the other river-basins of Hawke Bay. At the entrance to 

 the Wairoa and Mohaka Rivers, and on the hills towards Frasertown and the 

 Wairoa Hospital, shingle and pumiceous deposits occur, and in the inner 

 portion of Cape Kidnappers, extending from the Black Reef, sections 200 ft. 

 in vertical height display the same characteristic beds such as are met with, 



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Fig. 5. — TunAX(iANUi Gulf, after SrBsiDiiNXE. 



though less developed, in Poverty Bay. To the north-west and south- 

 west of the Kidnappers, through Maraekakaho, and thence past the Gwavas 

 Station on to the Ruataniwha Plains, the hills both to the right and left 

 are made up solely of the Kidnapper and Poverty Bay shingle series, and 

 these continue through Takapau, Ormondville, Matamau, and Dannevirke 

 in varying thickness and extent. 



All the deposits within the limits of the areas named bear witness to the 

 iact that the supply of materials was from the westward. There was 



