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rate of 15 gallons per minute. The water is of good quality, but no analysis 
has been made so far as I am aware. 
There is no shingle in these wells, the beds in the deepest being 10 ft. 
friable clay, 15 ft. soft blue clay, 9 ft. shale, 12 ft. greyish-blue clay, 
6 ft. shale, 12 ft. blue clay, and 7 ft. shale, in which bed water was obtained 
(fig. 3). 
The wells are in the vicinity of an open well where moa-bones were found 
during the progress of sinking some years previously. This is evidence to 
show that the valley-beds have been filled in within the moa period, and 
followed, or was contemporaneous with, the volcanic and earthquake period 
which modified the surface-features of the North Island and profoundly 
affected the whole of the east-coast country. The swamp in the same 
It is likely that the great basin in which is situated the Hatuma Lake, beyond 
ge cum bicarbonate, 1-60 grains ; silica, 3-92 grains: total grains, 1409. 
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