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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.

In The Sunny Waikato. (Photo, Elsie K. Morton.) Swirling waters at Arapuni and the skeleton trees of an ancient sunken forest.

In The Sunny Waikato.
(Photo, Elsie K. Morton.) Swirling waters at Arapuni and the skeleton trees of an ancient sunken forest.