The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 4 (August 1, 1930)
Over the Range
Over the Range.
We traversed those alluvial flats of the Ohura basin, all densely timbered then, where townships and farmhouses stand to-day. We left the Huatahi levels, with their continuous roof of leaves uplifted on enormous pillars of pine and rata and tawa, and climbed the steep Paparata Range—the railway route tunnels through it now —that separates the valleys of the Ohura and the Tangarakau. We heard from Julian and Puhi about the ruggedness of the Tangarakau Gorge that lay ahead of us. “A rough shop” was page 26 Julian's summing up of the wildest part of our trail. Jackson Palmer chanted hearteningly as he stumbled patiently on:
“One more river,
That's the Tangarakau;
One more river,
One more river to cross.”