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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 6 (October 1, 1930)

Across the Motu Range

Across the Motu Range.

The road from Gisborne to Opotiki, a distance of 100 miles, leads across the farfamed Motu Range, in the Urewera country. An altitude of 3,000 feet is reached; the views obtained from the various summits extend far into the Ureweras, and embrace country so rugged and precipitous in character as to be for all time immune from destruction through the agency of man. Gorges and defiles, 1,500 feet in depth, are covered with vegetation, Nature leaving few places unadorned; and from the car the traveller gazes down into lonely depths rarely, if ever, disturbed by man, even in his most adventurous moods. Through an opening in the hills on a clear day a remarkable view of White Island is obtained. The dark green foliage in the foreground, the deep blue sea beyond, and the tremendous cloud of steam of dazzling whiteness by which the island is canopied, combine to form a picture not quickly effaced from the mind.