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Nordmeyer, Arnold.

Waitaki : the river and its lakes, the land and its people / Arnold Nordmeyer. - [Oamaru] : Waitaki Lakes Committee, 1981. - xvii, 169 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm

Maps on lining papers. Available from Waitaki County Council, Thames Str., Oamaru, N.Z.

Includes bibliographical references (page 163) and index.

The river, its sources, its course and its influence -- The natural lakes, their origins and significance -- Hydro development and the man made lakes -- Great floods, great snows, great droughts -- Maori influence -- Early settlement in the Waitaki Basin -- The sib-divisions, success and failure -- Tracks, roads, highways and railways. Doctors and medical services -- Parsons and churches -- Teachers and schools -- Developments in farming -- sheep, cattle, cropping, forestry, irrigation -- Local, bodies and their influence -- The Acclimatisation Societies -- People of the river basin.

ISBN: 0473000806 9780473000806

LCCN: 81046249

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Waitaki River Valley (N.Z.)--History.

LC Class. No.: DU430.Ơ8 / N62 1981

Dewey Class. No.: 993.182