A PECULIAR CREEK.
HU NO AH UN A MYSTERY.
:, Speaking .at a meeting of, the ITunga v r ' .V hunga ; Drainage Board meeting last week, ;; the charman.Mr.F. E. Hughes, stated that ; . there was a peculiar formation in one part % ; of the board's area. A well-defined creek of considerable •'•) width i and depth was traced for about .40 chains, but there was ; ; no apparent sign of the creek above or, •;. below.. It was suggested that, the origi- V;.; nal creek might have been blocked -by , \ ' Maoris many years ; ago whim .\Etching • eels, - and in the ; course' of time : the '• de- V cayed vegetation . and : swamp fires had ,? >. obliterated all trace of the creek bed except for 40 chains. The water from the ;• present creek sweeps over a wide 'area, and eventually creates a creek a long ■ : distance- lower down toward, the • Waihou River. " -1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18322, 12 February 1923, Page 9
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143A PECULIAR CREEK. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18322, 12 February 1923, Page 9
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