The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 11 (March 1, 1929)
“Old Egmont Crowns the Land.”
“Old Egmont Crowns the Land.”
But I think the perfect look-out point is from the Meremere hills, a few miles to the east of Hawera town.
There, through a framing of forest, the eye ranges across the wide saucer of plain—townships, farmhouses, mist-filled gorges, grassy fields, woodlands, to the wide mountain base, forest-blue, smoke-blue, swelling with symmetrical deliberation into a supernal wedge of white, sharp-etched against the heavens, old Egmont, the crown and glory of the land.