词条 | Port Craig |
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Port Craig is located along the south coast (Te Waewae Bay) of the South Island New Zealand near Tuatapere. It was a small logging town born in 1916, with 200+ men women and children living there in its prime. Like other New Zealand bush towns, Port Craig was inhabited by hardy kiwi bushmen and their families, recent immigrants and a few others trying to keep clear of the law. The Marlborough Timber Company had a large scale plan to log one of the countries last significant coastal forests. The company planned big, they built the Dominion's largest sawmill, an extensive tramway system, port facilities and township all without road access. The bush was worked by the Lidgerwood overhead logging cable system (gantry) that weighed over 50 tonnes. The immense size of the gantry meant that it was very difficult to relocate in the inhospitable forest and after one major shift, the gantry was left redundant, crippling the local logging industry. All that is left of the town is considerable relics including the gantry base, a large English built wince (built in Hull) that operated on the wharf and thousands of bricks. There is also a fairly complete bakers oven and the original school building that is now used as a trampers hut. HistoryWhalingMussel Beach had the remains of a whaling station and a 6-oared whaling boat in 1877.[1] TracksThe track from Bluecliffs via Mussel Beach to Puysegur was improved when a phone line was erected in 1908,[2] the first base camp being at Mussel Beach.[3] Cages were installed to cross the major rivers.[4] It was further improved in 1919 and 1920 to a horse track from Bluecliffs to Port Craig.[5][6][7] LoggingThe logging days commenced in 1917 and continued till about 1929, when it shut down in the face of the looming depression. TramwayWork started on the 3 ft 6 in (NZR gauge) Port Craig tramway in 1917. It ran south from Port Craig, parallel to the coast, for {{Convert|14.6|km||abbr=on}} to Wairaurahiri River,[8] with a further {{Convert|9.8|km||abbr=on}} of branches.[9] It extended over a mile from the mill by 1921[10] and was extended in 1924.[11] The line was worked by steam locomotives from 1919,[12] including the largest bush locomotive built by A & G Price, a Meyer type Ar 0-4-4-0T,[13] which was on the line from 1926 to 1931.[14] The rails were removed in 1939.[15] NatureThe area is remote from any big towns or districts, and this led Port Craig to keep surrounding natural environment at its beauty. Southern Right Whales and Hector's Dolphins sometimes can be seen cavorting close to shores. As early as 1896 it was observed that ferrets seemed to have exterminated wekas and kakapo as far west as the Waitutu River.[16] Walking TracksParts of the tramway were cleared in 2009 to form a route for the Hump Ridge and South Coast Tracks and the school became a hut.[17] See also
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