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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON),
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Communications made of these transacts so thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made at these times to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.
VOL. [...] MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1863. No. 12
GEOLOGICAL REPORTS,
BY THE
HON. J. C. CRAWFORD, GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST.
I. ON THE WAIRARAPA AND EAST COAST.
II. ON MR. E. BROUGH SMYTH’S “NOTES ON THE SPECIMENS OF ROCKS COLLECTED IN THE PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.”
Report on the Wairarapa and East Coast.
Wellington, February 11, 1863.
To His Honor
I. E. Featherston,
Superintendent of the Province of Wellington.
Sir,
After returning from the exploration of the valleys of the Akatarewa and the Waikanae rivers, I started from Wellington on the 15th of January, with the view of gaining an insight into the geology of the N.E. part of the Province, more particularly in the direction of the Pakatoe range, and the country generally lying between the Tararua range and the East Coast.
Leaving the drift gravel of the Wairarapa behind me at Masterton, I found, on riding the hills towards the Tauherenikau, that I had entered upon the upper tertiary sandstone. This rock I found extending over the whole of the interior of what I may call the North-Eastern district, rising up in blue clay excent where some drift gravel intervenes between the two, but the gravel is by no means largely developed in this district. Beyond the East Coast I found a change of rock, out of these newer hereafter...
This upper sandstone consists of a series of soft flaggish sandstones, fossiliferous and alternated with fossil beds of indurated limestone, and is sometimes of great thickness in this district, seldom less than 500 feet, and in some places I think it must measure 1000 feet.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1863, No 12
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🌾 Geological Reports by Hon. J. C. Crawford
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources11 February 1863
Geological exploration, Wairarapa, East Coast, Akatarewa River, Waikanae River, Pakatoe range, Tararua range, sandstone, fossiliferous, limestone
- I. E. Featherston (Honourable), Superintendent of the Province of Wellington
- J. C. Crawford, Government Geologist