DESCRIPTIVE NOTES OF SOUTHERN HAWKE'S BAY AND NORTHERN WAIRARAPA

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  • J.A.H. Inglis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1976.38.1448

Abstract

THIS is a description of farming in the area of the Manawatu catchment upstream of the Manawatu gorge plus the catchments of the Akitio and Owahanga rivers. This area corresponds closely with the counties of Dannevirke (including Akitio), Woodville, Pahiatua and Eketahuna. The statistics given are for the total of these counties. Without attempting to study the financial implications, some effort is made to pinpoint weaknesses in present farming practices and possibilities for improvement. The main landscape units within this area are the Tararua and Ruahine ranges and foothills which form the western boundary, a central depression known by geologists as the "Dannevirke-Pahiatua Depression", along which flow the Mangahao, Mangatainoka and upper reaches of the Manawatu, and the eastern hill country which stretches to the Pacific Ocean. The length from north-north-east to south-south-west along the central depression (corresponding to State Highway 2 and the Wairarapa- Hawke's Bay railway line) is about 90 km, and distance along the eastern coast is about 50 km.

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1976-01-01

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