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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

[Waitotara]

This township, which is situated 39° 50” south latitude and 174° 40” east longitude, is 170 miles north-west of Wellington, twenty-five miles from Wanganui, and eighty-two miles from New Plymouth. It is a part of the Waverley Riding of the Patea County, and is in the electoral district of Patea. The post-office, which is also a telephone bureau, issues money orders and postal notes, transacting also savings bank business; mails arrive and depart twice each day. The population of the township at the 1896 census was 207, the vicinity having an additional forty-nine. Waitotara, which is only thirty feet above sea-level, lies in a deep valley on the picturesque river of the same name, the railway to Wanganui ascending a steep gradient in the neighbourhood. There is a vast extent of splendid forest country, which is rapidly giving way before the march of settlement.

Waitotara.

Waitotara.