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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 10 (January 1, 1938.)

Waterfalls and Coal Cliffs

Waterfalls and Coal Cliffs.

Now we passed black, glistening walls of solid coal; dripping with water from the runlets above, and overhung with ferns and mosses and long weepers of flax-like habit. On both sides of the Mokau, these great seams occur, bisected by the river. There are huge coal measures, in this part of the Mokau; their extent is only imperfectly known as yet. A waterfall tumbled over a mossy cliff into the river. It was on the northern bank, and its spray sprinkled us as we paddled past; a panel of flashing white, set in a framing of dripping fern-trees. Its name, Hauraki said, was Te Mimi-a-Maroa; it preserved the memory of a chieftainess of long ago. One gathered that the lady so complimented must have been somewhat of a giantess; the waterfall was sixty or seventy feet high, we judged.