TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nordmeyer, Arnold.
ED  - Waitaki County (N.Z.).
TI  - Waitaki: the river and its lakes, the land and its people 
SN  - 0473000806
AV  - DU430.Ơ8 N62 1981
U1  - 993.182 
PY  - 1981///
CY  - [Oamaru]
PB  - Waitaki Lakes Committee
KW  - Waitaki River Valley (N.Z.)
KW  - History
N1  - 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
ER  -