Kurow

Kurow (pop. 339 in 2006 census) is a town in the Waitaki Valley in the South Island of New Zealand, 55 kilometres inland from Oamaru The name of the town is an Anglicised form of the name of the nearby mountain Te Kohurau. In the 1920s the Kurow was the base for the building of the nearby Waitaki Dam and forming Lake Waitaki in the first of a series of hydroelectric projects on the Waitaki River. The first social security scheme for New Zealand workers was designed in Kurow. It was born from, then Presbyterian Minister of Kurow, Arnold Nordmeyer's experience of working with families of workers on the Waitaki hydro electric project. Examples of pre-European Māori cave paintings can be found near Kurow, close to the small settlement of...