Nihotupu Dam tramline at Parau, 1920

The section of the Nihotupu Dam tramway on the flat at Parau was running on trestles over and alongside Big Muddy Creek. There was a passing loop in the foreground. The line passed through Peter Williams' property just beyond the mangroves (left middleground). In the centre background is Marhsall Laing's old home. The building in the right background is the loco shed at the Deep Hole.
"The white streaks below the house and slightly right is the Brooklyn Bridge. In front of the house and in line with the bridge to the left is ridge up which the old road went to Mill Bay and Huia in the 1800s." (Source: Jack Diamond note on negative envelope).