The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 10 (January 1, 1936)
Tangiwai:
Tangiwai:
A modern transposition of the name Waitangi (“Sounding or Wailing Waters”), applied to a stream and waterfall in the vicinity. Tangiwai is the term applied to the beautiful translucent kind of greenstone or nephrite, formerly chiefly obtained from an outcropping reef on the shore of Milford Sound. But the local allusion here is to the waterfall.