Tutira

TUTIRA ITS PROMINENT PHYSICAL FEATURES. . TUTIRA STATION is situated in the Hawke''s Bay province of the North Island of New Zealand. The homestead itself lies a few miles inland midway between the ports of Napier and Wairoa. Tutira proper extends over 20000 acres about one-third of the size of the lands to be described ; lands which have at one time or another been occupied by the writer. The larger area is bounded by three considerable rivers. The largest rising in the interior of the North Island flows along the base of the Maungaharuru range eventually reaching the sea twenty miles north of the run. There may be here and there a crossing to this deep swift and dangerous river. I know of none. Another river running from source to sea between cliffs is impassable except where crossings have been constructed in modern times. The third rising on the high lands of inland Tutira is crossable at the old pack- horse ford where in the ''nineties a cage on wires was slung for the convenience of degenerate modern wayfarers and where in still more recent times for still more degenerate travellers a bridge has been thrown across the river. There is another ford nearer the sea where the ancient Maori foot-trail passed inland otherwise this stream also was practically uncrossable until beyond the Tutira boundary. ...