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A PRETTY GOOD PLACE TO LIVE LAKE HAWEA & HAWEA FLAT Barbara Chinn A PRETTY GOOD PLACE TO LIVE LAKE HAWEA AND HAWEA FLAT Barbara Chinn To John Lindsay Turnbull The wisest of teachers. Cover photo: aerial view from above the Clutha River looking north across Hawea Flat to the head of Lake Hawea. Photographer: Andy Woods, Imageworld. i ii Map showing Lake Hawea and its surrounds Adapted from NZ TopoMap Series 1:500,000 [242] Sheet 4 rev 1996. Scale 1:342983 with some additions . iii ii iv LIST OF CONTENTS Page DEDICATION i MAP OF THE DISTRICT iii CHAPTER 1: The Environment of Lake Hawea 1 2: Pre-European History 9 Waitaha Ngati Mamoe Ngai Tahu. 3: Early European visitors 23 Nathaniel Chalmers, John Turnbull Thomson, James McKerrow, Johnny Jones/Hopwood, the gold diggers and their suppliers in Long Creek, explorers of the pass to the West Coast; Baker, Cameron, Haast, Brodrick. 4: High Country Runs at Lake Hawea 33 th Land legislation from the 19 century Hunter Valley Ben Wevis Timaru Creek, Dingle and Dingleburn Lake Hawea Station Glen Dene Station. Photographs for Chapter 4 5: Farms from the Lake to Hawea Flat 77 Map of Hawea Flat, drawn by Ian Kane 85 v 6: Transport and the dam 91 Early routes and methods of transport Boats used on the lake Roads Bridges The Railway. Photographs for Chapter 6 7: Settlement and Development of Tourism 125 Hawea Flat, the first centre Claude Capell and tourism at the lake Development of Activities in the district. Photographs for Chapter 7. 8: Institutions 137 Lake Hawea Community Centre Bowling Hawea Community Association Guardians of Lake Hawea Hawea Flat primary school Hawea Hotel Anzac Peninsula and flagpole Churches Irrigation Company Sailz shop & Restaurant Peter Fraser Park Thursday group Town vs Country day Volunteer Fire Brigade Sheep dip Food Forest Lake Hawea Garage vi

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