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small part of its southern end to the Hurunui, and the intervening portion 
to the Jed. a small stream that flows to the sea round the southern end of 
the Cheviot Hills. As judged from the upper courses of the small streams 
draining the hills flanking the lowlands, all the drainage was formerly 
northward to the Waiau-uha, perhaps consequent on the northerly slope 
of the younger rocks flooring the depression. 
Jed Stream flows eastward across a hill-surrounded flat which slopes 
gently from the railway, where it is 250 ft. above sea-level, to the Township 
of Cheviot (200 ft.), where the stream enters the valley it has cut through 
