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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 5 (September 1, 1932)

Other Scenes of Beauty

Other Scenes of Beauty.

In another direction, up along the western side of the great gulf, there are comfortable looking townships and farming districts—Motueka, Riwaka, Collingwood, Takaka, all adding their quota to Nelson's big export trade. South away there are two beautiful lakes, Rotoiti and Rotoroa, water-sheets of alpine character, very deep and clear, surrounded by forested mountains, the haunt of the red deer.

One wonderful corner of North Nelson calls for a paragraph to itself. This is a great crystal-clear cold spring, called by the Maoris the Waingaro-pupu, or “Bubbling Fountain of Hidden Water.” It is an underground river suddenly released to the light of day, and discharging an enormous volume of water. The stream is a tributary of the Takaka River. This ever-welling fountain, an Arethusa of the southern world, rises from the underworld like the Hamurana at Rotorua, but is far larger than that famous and much-visited spring.

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(From the W. W. Stewart collection.) The Rotorua “Limited” near the end of its 171 mile run to Auckland

(From the W. W. Stewart collection.)
The Rotorua “Limited” near the end of its 171 mile run to Auckland