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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 6 (October 1, 1928)

Up the Waimakariri

Up the Waimakariri.

Mr. Dobson set out from Christchurch on 8th March, 1864, with his younger brother Edward. The pair of explorers rode to the upper Waimakariri country, traversing a great lonely land with a few sheep stations at long intervals. Two days on horseback took them to the sheep station of Mr. Goldney, near where the Cass railway station now stands. Next day they rode up the Waimakariri page 27 River bed to where a large snow-fed tributary flowed swiftly into the main river. This tributary Arthur Dobson named the “Bealey.” The two brothers rode up the Bealey as far as they could take their horses, and camped, the first two white men, so far as they knew, who had ever reached that wild spot with the mountains towering all round.