Wairua Falls, Wairoa River, North Auckland, N.I.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Wairua Falls, " the Niagara of New Zealand", is fifty feet high and about two hundred feet wide. The rocky gorge below the falls is verdurous [SIC] on either side with native vegetation, and the river bed is piled high with masses of great Kauri logs. floated down from the upriver forest, on their way to the Wairoa mills. The logs lie here jammed in wild confusion, until swept down by floods; on the very verge of the falls are perched--in the summer time--more logs. stranded until the winter floods send them hurling over the precipice into the whirlpool below. During a flood the falls present a magnificent spectacle. "
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides
Item Number: P217:set 039 026
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Wairua Falls, Wairoa River, North Auckland, N.I.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Wairua Falls, " the Niagara of New Zealand", is fifty feet high and about two hundred feet wide. The rocky gorge below the falls is verdurous [SIC] on either side with native vegetation, and the river bed is piled high with masses of great Kauri logs. floated down from the upriver forest, on their way to the Wairoa mills. The logs lie here jammed in wild confusion, until swept down by floods; on the very verge of the falls are perched--in the summer time--more logs. stranded until the winter floods send them hurling over the precipice into the whirlpool below. During a flood the falls present a magnificent spectacle. "
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides
Item Number: P217:set 039 026
You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here.
Want more? You can find more digital resources online.
We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons; however, certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version may apply. To read more about what “no known restrictions” means, please visit the Special Collections & Archives website, or contact staff at the OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center for details.