The New Zealand Airways monoplane ZK-ABG, which left Timaru on June 1 and arrived at Nevis in 1 hour 30 minutes, completing the first stage of an aerial survey. The Nevis is situated in a valley between the Game and Hector Mountains, 22 miles from Cromwell on the one side and 28 miles from Garston on the other. Gold dredging and sluicing is now the principal local industry. The township is over 2000 feet above sea level, and is reached by an unusually bad road. At this time of the year Nevis is sometimes isolated from the outside world by deep snow, but at the time of this visit the district had experienced a big thaw, and the ground was very soft.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22285, 11 June 1934, Page 5
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