FISHING IN LAKE TAUPO
CUT MADE LN RIVER. [per press association.] WELLINGTON, April 20. “The erosion which threatened to take away from anglers a good deal of the attractiveness of parts of the Tongariro River. Lake Taupo, famous for trout-fishing, has been overcome by engineers of the Public Works Department. This season’s fishermen have reported that the skill of the attention paid to the river has brought the fishing area back to the importance it held for many years,” the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hou. W. E. Parry) said to-day. “Originally it was proposed to place a groyne in the river to stop erosion taking place on the river’s left bank, particularly as erosion was tending to spoil a number of the best fishing pools. Engineers, however, came to the conclusion that a better solution of the trouble was to open a cut through the shingle bank and turn the river, thus doing away with the need for a groyne.
“The channel cut,” Mr. Parry added, “is functioning very satisfactorily. It may be necessary later to deepen the cut somewhat. One result achieved by the cut has been the lowering of the river level in the pool immediately upstream, and improved fishing has resulted.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1938, Page 3
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