ANGLERS' BUREAU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20332, 13 August 1929, Page 10

ANGLERS' BUREAU.

HELP FOR TAUPO VISITORS.

BUILDING BEING ERECTED

INFORMATION FOR SPORTSMEN

For the convenience of New Zealand and overseas tourists and sportsmen, the Internal Affairs Department is establishing an anglers' information bureau at Taupo. A building, comprising public and private offices and a vestibule, is already in course of erection on the department's landing reserve of some acres near the Taupo Wharf. Here visiting anglers will bo supplied with complete information concerning the best fishing streams, camp and hotel accommodation, the most suitable kinds of fishing gear, rail and service car routes, fares and time-tables, anil other information vJiich might help them to make the most profitable use of their stay on the fishing grounds. Tho officer in charge will be an experienced angler personally acquainted with tho Roturua. Taupo and Tokaanu districts. Part of his duties will be the preparation of a weekly bulletin which will be posted at tho bureau and leading hotels, supplying regular information concerning tho state of fishing and tho catches made by individual anglers, and any data that might prove helpful to the keen and enthusiastic sportsman. A small publication is also in course of preparation, containing photographs and a map of tho district, for distribution to tho New Zealand tourist bureaux and overseas, particularly America and Australia. It should be of considerable service in encouraging the drift of local and overseas sportsmen to tho North Island lake district.

Tho department has recently erected a landing stage at Taupo for (he use of visitors handling small boats 011 tho lake, and a slipway lias been constructed for the ufo of launches. The bureau building has been tastefully designed and the surrounding grounds and foreslioro are now being laid out to givo an improved appearance. Native shrubs arc being planted, and roads and paths formed. Tho bureau scheme was suggested in tho first place by tho department's conservator of fish and game. Captain G. F. Yerex, of Rotojua, and is now being carried out under his supervision. When completed it should 1)0 a valuable adjunct to the present tourist activities iri the Dominion.