Mangamahu

The Mangamahu District is a hill-country farming and forestry community in the middle reaches of the Whangaehu River valley, 50 km north-east of Wanganui, New Zealand. It is centered on the village of Mangamahu, which is situated on river flats where the Mangamahu stream flows into the Whangaehu river. Mangamahu has a primary school (25-30 children) which has been open since 1894 and a War Memorial hall built in 1952. The old hotel that was built in 1891, and the general store built in 1885 were both closed in 1974, due to the decline in the wool and meat trades in the 1970s. Many of the farms in the district have now being converted to pine plantations. The Mangamahu river flats were formed by huge mud slides or "lahars" (c. 1200 and...