Notable Feat of Exploration
To this day considered by surveyors and engineers as the most notable feat in the history of the exploration of New Zealand, the survey trip of the Buller River from its source at Lake Rotoiti to the coast at Westport, by Edward Brunner, was recalled when the Westport-fnangahua railway line was spiked last week. Brunner made his survey in 1846. He set out from Lake Rotoiti, the headwaters of the Buller, in company with two Maoris and their wives, and took six months to follow Ine river down to its outlet. The date of his arrival at the mouth of the river was July 6, 1846. For most of its length the river runs under precipitous rocky bluffs. At times Brunner and his party almost starved. Rain fell for most of the six months, and the river was flooded. Brunner and the Maoris carried guns, and they shot a few pigeons and wekas, and caught eels; but for a time they subsisted on fern roots.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 9 December 1941, Page 9
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