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43-J- miles above Upokongaro ; 50J miles above Wanganui ; 85-J miles below Taumaranui : Bapid No, 182 : Easy run; clear and good water; good reach; about 3 chains wide. Tahaerapa, Native kainga, to right, and a stream. Oau, a stream, to left. Te Karaka, a stream on left, with small waterfall. Te Anatararoa, Native kainga, on right. Kauwai Stream on right; good reach continues. Te Eipo, Native kainga, on right; stream on right, with deposit of large stones at junction with river. This reach continues and goes on as far as Hiruharama. Hiruharama (Jerusalem), Native kainga, on left bank. Mangoia, a stream, to left, just below. Hiruharama Eiver turns sharply to right. Eapid No. 183 : Kukupai, a little below Hiruharama ; moderate run; eel pa just below, but passage at side of it; bend to left; no work required. 43 miles above Upokongaro ; 50 miles above Wanganui; 86 miles below Taumaranui : Eapid No. 184 : Kawaroa —very swift run ; eel pas curved to right. Speed of current by patent log, 5 miles per hour. The eel pa should be removed, as it is in channel; no other work required ; large stones on shinglo bank to right. Kauaeroa, Native kainga, on left, close below the rapid; good reach ; some snags to remove in it. 42 miles above Upokongaro ; 49 miles above Wanganui; 87 miles below Taumaranui: Eapid No. 185 : Swift run ; eel pa, but room to pass it; some snags to move near top on left ; good reach. Tawhitinui, Native kainga, on right; snag in channel to move. 41-J- miles above Upokongaro; 48-J miles above Wanganui: 87J miles below Taumaranui : Eapid No. 186 : Moutoa Island; the channel is to right of island ; some snags to move at upper end of island on right; moderate run. This is where the fight with Hauhau Natives took place in 1864. 40 miles above Upokongaro ; 47 miles above Wanganui; 89 miles below Taumaranui : Eapid No. 187 : Eapid at lower end of island ; very swift run. Speed of current by patent log, 4f miles per hour; curve to left runs against righo bank; a snag to move. This is a difficult rapid ; a moderate run continues for some way below the rapid. Eanana (London), Native kainga, on left bank. Eapid No. 188 : Easy run; a snag to move. Ngatama Stream on left; large bank of big stones at its junction with river. Opawa, a hill, on left, below the stream, close to river ; good reach. 39 miles above Upokongaro ; 46 miles above Wanganui ; 90 miles below Taumaranui : Eapids Nos. 189 and 190 : Kawaka ; very swift run. Speed of current by patent log, just above rapid, 3f miles per hour ; in lower part of rapid 6-fo miles per hour ; some stones to move at top ; turns to left; eel pa, near bottom, should be removed. This is a difficult rapid ; a bank of large stones on right just below rapid, and a similar bank on left, a little lower down, at a stream, Porongatia. Kawana, Native kainga, on left. There is a stream and a flourmill here; good roach. Stream on right, Tokanganmtu, with bank of large stones jutting into river at its junction ; a little below a similar point of large stones juts into river from left bank, at a stream, Matahiwi; a snag to move here. Note. —These deposits of large stones are a feature at the junction of the streams with the river at about this part of its course. They are of considerable extent, and seem remarkable in connection with the apparent size of the streams. They must affect the river current in floods considerably, as they extend some way out from the general run of the river banks. There is, however, no necessity to touch them as ample width is left clear of them in river channel. Eapid No. 191: Island ; channel to left of island ; swift run ; a papa reef to remove in middle of channel, also some snags ; curve to right; a good deal of work here ; there is an eel pa in the other channel, to right of island. 36J miles above Upokongaro ; 43J miles above Wanganui; 92J miles beloio Taumaranui : Karaitia (Galatea), Native kainga, just below the rapid. 35 miles above Upokongaro ; 42 miles above Wanganui; 94 miles below Taumaranui : Eapid No. 192 : Swift run, with turn to right; two eel pas to remove ; a long rapid shallow; some stones and snags to move ; good reach; a large snag to move. Euapirau on right bank ; streams come in on both sides here, each having a point of large stones at its junction with river ; shingle bank on right. Eapid No. 193: A long swift rapid, with bend ; a good deal of work at this rapid; some snags at upper end, and snags in channel to move ; bluff on left and a stream to right; a point with large stones at junction of stream to right, a little below rapid ; short good reach. Eapid No. 194 : Moderate run ; a snag to move ; good reach ; a snag to move ; stream to left with point of large stones at its junction, and a little below it a stream to right, with similar point of large stones. These points here jut well out from river banks, and confine channel to some extent. Eapid No. 195: Kawakawa —moderate run; a number of snags on upper part to move; a point with large stones at junction of a stream on left, just below the rapid. ii—D. 1.