Safeguarding Arapuni: Boatmen Warned

Northern Advocate, 14 September 1940, Page 5

Safeguarding Arapuni: Boatmen Warned

[Special to “Northern Advocate ”l HAMILTON. This Day. In future, beats on the Arapuni Lake approaching the dam and the Tc Awamutu Road Bridge will be fired on. This is stated in a letter from Lieut.Colonel T. H. Dawson, officer commanding the guard of vital points, in a letter addressed to the secretary of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, and the electric branch of the Public Works Department. Lieut.-Colonel Dawson stated that the military authority controlled an area from a point half a mile south of the Pokaiwhenua Stream to a point half a mile north of the power station. AH fishermen were warned that no approach was permitted either from the eastern or western banks inside this area. Control was • also exercised by the military over an area on the Arapuni Lake headrace and spillway from the falls to a point on the lake at rightahgles to the outlet of Alngarth’s Creek. Controlled area .feigns, said the statement, were erected on the Arapuni-To Awamutu main highway east and west of the dam. No fishing was allowed on the tailrace above Brandon’s Pool, and no approach was permitted from the eastern or western banks in this area.

Approach to the boathouses on the eastern and south of the dam must be made outside a line drawn from the outlet of Alngarth’s Creek to the controlled area .sign near the tea kiosk.