FISHING AT TAUPO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 21 April 1938, Page 2

FISHING AT TAUPO.

EROSION TROUBLE OVERCOME. 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 at Lake Taupo, famous for trout fishing, has been overcome by engineers of the Public Works Department. This season’s fishermen have reported that the attention paid to the river has brought the fishing area back to the importance it/held for many years.

The Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry) said to-day that originally it was proposed to place a groyne in the river to stop the erosion taking place on the river’s left bank, particularly as the erosion was tending to spoil a number of the best fishing pools. The 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 necessity for the groyne. “The channel which was cut,” Mr Parry added, “is functioning very satisfactorily. It may bo . necessary later on 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.”