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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 12 (April 1, 1930)

Down the Mad River

Down the Mad River.

We lay at our ease and watched the wonderful moving picture of the green-banked Wanganui reeled off as we flew along on the top of the flood. It was a thrilling run down stream to Pipiriki, less than an hour, as against three hours coming up. Sometimes we were within half-a-dozen feet of the straight-carved cliffs, lifting for hundreds of feet above the sucking whirlpools. Sometimes the over-stretching trees left broken-off lower branches strewed over our awning and on our deck. Up yonder, one thought, it would be a glorious life in Parinui on the mountain-top when the grand sunny weather came.