THE BATHS AT TOKAANU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11563, 29 January 1901, Page 6

THE BATHS AT TOKAANU.

j TO THE EDITOB. Sir,l have read recently in your columns an article re thermal district, tourist traffic, baths at Rotorua, etc.; not a word about Tokaanu baths. The flow and fall of hot and cold water hero beats Rotorua. They are just as nature left them. • Not even a dressing-shed erected, although £300 has been on the Estimates for years. The Government have spent large sums on improvements at Rotorua, but upon those baths ifeey will not spend anything.'.'/' When the trunk railway touches Waioru it will be a 44-mile drive to here, and the grand range of Tongariro mountains, .-..'. Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, ; , and Tongariro proper, all along the route to within 1?. miles of here. Trout are plentiful in the streams.They were liberated first by Mr. O. A. Fitzroy, secretary of the Hawke's Bay Acclimatisation Society, on December 16. 1892. Ho writes in the visitors' book of that date: " This is to record that on behalf of the Hawke's Bay Acclimatisation Society I liberated to-day about 6000 brown trout in the Puketarata creek." Puketarata creek runs into the Waikato River ; about nine miles from here. Fifty thousand or more were afterwards liberated in every stream, emptying into Lake Taupo.—l am,, etc., - : Geo. Blake. Tokaanu, January 17, 1901.-