Identifier: transactionsproc21869newz (find matches)
Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute (Wellington, N.Z
Subjects: Science Birds
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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199 drought being induced in most of our main rivei-s by the destruction of thebush. There is more liability to sixch a contingency occurring in the smallerstreams, and perhaps in the East Coast rivers, and in some of the Wairaraparivers, where the country is more scantily furnished with forest. I recollect in the dry summer of 18G3-4, observing both the Whareamaand the Taueru rivers to have nearly ceased running, consisting of a chain ofpools connected by a very small run of water between them. Also the Aohanga river, at a place well inland whei*e it falls perpen-dicularly over a ledge of overhanging rock for a height of about sixty feet,seemed at that time a mere thread of water, which the gusts of wind at timesdissipated into spray before it reached the river bed below. On such rivers the preservation of the bush about their upper courses, andon their feeders, becomes an object of importance. It will thus be seen, from the table of areas, that the Manawatu andthe Ruamahanga are the

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