The water-powered Kaukore flour mill at Pipiriki on the Whanganui River is fed by the Kaukore Stream. Kaukore literally means ‘no swimming’. A prohibition may have been put on swimming in the stream, as it supplied water to the mill to process food.
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Pencil and ink drawing by James Coutts Crawford
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