Lightband Gully

[2] There is legal access—mostly via paper roads—from Plain Road: a corridor accesses Appos Flat, then descends along Appos Creek to its confluence with the creek coming out of Lightband Gully, with the paper road then following up the gully and beyond it along an unnamed tributary.

[4] On 1 September 1856, Nelson banker David Sclanders chaired a meeting in Nelson at which it was decided to put forward a £500 bonus for the discovery of a "workable gold field" within the Nelson–Tasman area.

[9] Lightband Jr. and William Hough did some further prospecting at the original claim, and after a week they moved further up the valley.

There is a monument on the old alignment of State Highway 60 that commemorates Lightband Gully, which is 2 mi (3.2 km) inland from the location.

[8] The inscription reads:Two miles west of this spotat Lightband's Gully the firstSouth Island discovery ofpayable gold was made in 1856After the Cobb Reservoir and the Cobb Power Station had been completed in 1956, workers and machinery were shifted to Parapara to realign the state highway and build he causeway through the Parapara Inlet; the latter was under construction in the early 1960s.