Waitaki : the river and its lakes, the land and its people / Arnold Nordmeyer.

Maps on lining papers.

Available from Waitaki County Council, Thames Str., Oamaru, N.Z.

Includes bibliographical references (page 163) and index.

The river, its sources, its course and its influence -- The natural lakes, their origins and significance -- Hydro development and the man made lakes -- Great floods, great snows, great droughts -- Maori influence -- Early settlement in the Waitaki Basin -- The sib-divisions, success and failure -- Tracks, roads, highways and railways.

Doctors and medical services -- Parsons and churches -- Teachers and schools -- Developments in farming -- sheep, cattle, cropping, forestry, irrigation -- Local, bodies and their influence -- The Acclimatisation Societies -- People of the river basin.