It is divided by the Mataura River into Gore and East Gore, the majority of the town being situated on the western banks of the river.

As you drive into Mataura from Gore, there is a sign on the road proclaiming Mataura as the birthplace of Cardigan Bay.

The Mataura River is in the Southland Region of the South Island of New Zealand.

The Mataura is renowned as a source of brown trout, and is a popular fishing venue.

Mataura is a town in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand.

The town straddles the Mataura River which flows south through the town and is a source of brown trout.

On the northern outskirts of the town the river falls over a bed of sandstone 6. 1 metres ( 20 ft ) high to create the Mataura Falls which is known by local Maori as Te Aunui ( the great current ).

Mataura is the birth place of Cardigan Bay, the famous New Zealand pacer.

It is 70 kilometres north of Lumsden, and close to the headwaters of the Mataura River.

The Mataura River is the major river responsible for the presence of the Awarua Plain ; along with the Oreti River, it is a remnant of the rivers from the Ice Ages that formed the Southland Plains ( Murihiku ).

Waituna Lagoon is located halfway along the bay, and towards the eastern end the Mataura River has its outflow into the Foveaux Strait.

It is situated on Toetoes Bay at the mouth of the Mataura River, and is on the far western edge of the Catlins.

Wyndham is situated on the east banks of the Mataura River, between the Mimihau Stream to the north and the Wyndham ( Mokoreta ) River to the south.

The Waimea River is a tributary of the Mataura River in Southland, New Zealand.

To encourage use of the bridge the council also built the Mataura Ferry Hotel on the west bank of the river.

He also petitioned the government to undertake the first survey of the location which subsequently named the area the Town of Mataura Bridge.

The Hokonui Hills also splits the Southland Plains in two-to the north and east lies the broad floodplain of the Mataura River, and to the south and west lie the plains of the Aparima and Oreti Rivers.

While there was no permanent Maori settlement in the present day location of Mataura prior to the arrival of European settlers, the location was well known to local Maori for the harvest of lamprey ( which they called ‘ kana kana ’) in October of each year as they made their annual passage up the falls.

In 1854 the Murihiku block of land ( which included Mataura ) was purchased from local Maori by the Otago Provincial Council, with the objective of developing it up for settlement by immigrants from Great Britain.

In 1866 James Pollack won the tender for the lease of the Mataura Ferry Hotel and offered to build a replacement bridge in return for the right to charge tolls for 12 years.

It wasn ’ t until 1911 the Borough Council was able to reach agreement with the freezing works for them to increase their generating capacity so that they could supply the Mataura load.

Mataura retained its own independent power system until 1932 when due to technical issues it became impossible for the freezing works to continue supplying the town.

The construction of the telegraph line between Dunedin and Invercargill which passed through the town lead to the establishment in December 1868 of the first post and telegraph office in the Mataura Valley.

By 1905 as a means of ending an unprofitable price war between Mataura Falls Paper Mill, Otago Paper Mills at Woodhaugh near Dunedin and Riverhead Paper Mills at Auckland these companies amalgamated into a new company called the New Zealand Paper Mills.

In 1894, Clutha electorate voted ‘ no-license ’ and in 1902 Mataura and Ashburton followed suit.

Tuturau, near modern Mataura, was the nearest Maori settlement.

As crossing the Mataura River involved a long fording, the locality became known as “ the Long Ford ”, or Longford.

A village named Gordon after Governor Sir Arthur Gordon became established on the opposite bank of the Mataura.

Cardigan Bay was foaled at Mataura ( near Gore ) in the South Island of New Zealand.

The town of Wyndham was completely evacuated, and the towns of Balclutha, Milton and Mataura were seriously affected with many residents moved.

It then passes through the town of Mataura, and enters the Pacific Ocean at Toetoes Bay on the southern coast of the South Island.

The Mataura, along with the three other main Southland rivers, the Waiau, Oreti and Aparima, breached during the Southland floods of January 1984.

Commercial and residential areas of the town of Mataura were particularly affected, including the pulp and paper plant.

Mataura has a meat processing plant, and until 2000 it was the site of a large pulp and paper mill.

The closest Maori settlement was the kaik ( unfortified village ) of Tuturau, which was located near the east bank of the Mataura River downstream from the present town.

At the time travellers between Southland and Otago were drawn to the Mataura area by the presence of the Tuturau ford located about 3. 2 km downstream of the falls and the northern ford which was located approximately above the falls.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.