Geology of the white rock - tora area, South-East Wairarapa

Abstract

The White Rock-Tora area comprises some hundred square miles of hill country east of the Wairarapa Plains, South Wellington, lying within the Onoke, Pahaoa and Palliser sheets of the Lands and Survey Department. The area is bounded to the west by the watersheds of the Waitutuma, Otakaha and Paraka streams, to the north by the watersheds of the upper Opouawe and Oterei rivers, and to the east and south by the Oterei River, and the coast.