Kennedy Warne - Rivers

Waitaki dam.

Waitaki dam: a magnificent engineering feat, its workers’ medical association the basis for Labour’s 1939 Social Security system. But the fish ladder (pictured) that bypassed the river on its south bank was not a success.

Motu River falls.

From tolls to chimes, the old toll bridge, lower Manawatu, built mainly from flax fortunes.

From one of the most impressive sequences of its kind, the white cliffs of the Rangitikei River.

Dawson Suspension Bridge, Taoroa, over a drop as deep as the bridge is long; its totara decking ‘as brittle as a carrot’, according to local farmer Harold Davis.