A great day out

The Onslow Historical Society’s Waitangi Day Walk up Mount Kaukau on 6 February proved a great day out.

It was touch-and-go – with a deluge of rain the night before threatening a cancellation.

The skies cleared, however, and by the afternoon Khandallah was bathed in sunshine.

Twenty- eight walkers, including two visiting Canadians, joined the party.

Starting at Raroa Station they were met by John Galloway and briefed by leader, Chris Horne.

The walk went through Onslow College, opened in 1950, to Johnsonville Park, sites of the historic waterworks and Mt Kaukau –site of the TV tower and of an aircraft crash in 1975.

After lunch on the summit enjoying views of Te Whanganui a Tara, and the Remutaka

Range capped with pure white clouds, the group descended to Khandallah Park.

The party benefited from George Walter’s detailed knowledge of the history of Johnsonville’s earliest town water supply.

He showed the group the remains of a dam built just inside the park entrance. This replaced the storage lost when, in 1918, a giant rain storm filled a concrete dam in a tributary of hariu Stream with gravel and destroyed the pump house.

Then he showed the group the tunnel excavated as part of the original scheme, as was a reservoir tank west of the ridge. The Café du Parc was a perfect final destination.

Under a shady umbrella, the party enjoyed much deserved cool refreshments.

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