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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 89, 10 December 1912, Page 6

Referring to the now waterfall discovered in the Tangarakau district, a Dunedin Press wire relates that the Rev. C. Rush-King, curate of St, Matthew’s, says that in PJU7 ho was there on mission duty. While at Maungaroa he went over the Loveday Saddle, and hearing the subdued roar of water each time, asked the settlers about it, but they ascribed it to tne wind in the gorge. Unsatisfied, lie started out from I'atu in search leaving his horse on. account of the roughness of the country and proceeded afoot until he discerned the head ot the falls, which are 500 ft high, in cascade form. In his opinion tne water is that of tire Tangarakau river. tic reported the discovery to Sir W. HallJones, who replied that as far as the Cabinet knew, Mr Rush-King was the first white man to traverse that paid of the country