New Zealand - Clydesdale
- The new bridge at present being built at a cost of £16,300 to replace the ferry
- The Molyneux River at Clydesdale, Central Otago
- 27/7/1938
- Unknown Photographer
- Originally published in "The Auckland Weekly News"
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The Molyneux River
- The Molyneux River, where it issues from Lake Wanaka, is 990 feet above sea level.
- At Clyde the minimum discharge is 522,000 cubic feet per minute, and below Balclutha 1,690,000 cubic feet per minute.
- This river drains 7,000 square miles. At Balclutha the velocity is greater below the surface where the flow is four miles per hour, and on the surface three miles per hour.
- The Molyneux, the greatest river in New Zealand, was personified by the old-time Maori into a monster, and is the subject of two legends.
(http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-TayLore-t1-body1-d16.html)