WOOD AND WASTE 9 



Then three-quarters of the work done on 

 the station is accomplished within eyeshot 

 of the lake, all the fertile hill country where 

 the ewes run lies roiuid about its edges, all 

 the smaller paddocks slope to its shores. 

 On the homestead side winds the public 

 road; the other side is the main thorough- 

 fare of shepherds and their sheep, that pass 

 in mile-long, loose-linked, stringing mobs. 



In fact, fair Aveather or foul, daylight or 

 dark, at water level or from the range 

 tops rumiing parellel, the lake is always the 

 prime feature of the landscape. The name 

 Tutira signifies a row or file, and there 

 can be no doubt that ages ago there must 

 have been three lakes in a line running 

 north and south, firstly Waikopiro to the 

 south, in dry weather separate from the 

 larger lake, then Tutira, and thirdly a 

 swamp Tauringa-miro-miro, of several hun- 

 dred acres, now filled up with slips from 

 the hills on the east, and Avith pumaceous 

 deposits and sand brought down from north 

 and west by the Papakiri stream. This 

 ancient lake, Tauringa-miro-miro, would 

 have been nearly cut off from the waters 



