KARAPIRO LAKE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25052, 16 November 1944, Page 4

KARAPIRO LAKE

NATIONAL PLAYGROUND APPROACH TO GOVERNMENT (0.C.) CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday A resolution urging the Government to acquire and preserve areas of land on both shores of the lake to be formed on the Waikato Hirer above the Karapiro power dam as a national playground for all time was unanimously carried at a conference of 50 people representing local bodies and interested organisations in Cambridge today. .Represented at the meeting were the Auckland City Council, the Hamilton and Cambridge Borough Councils, the Matamata County Council, the Leamnngton Town Board, the Automobile Association (Auckland), the Cambridge and Matamata Chambers of Commerce and the Hamilton Beautifying Society. The Government was represented by the Minister of Internal Affairs. Mr Parry. The resolution was carried following a tour by the delegates of the 40-mile stretch of the Waikato River from the Karapiro hydro-electric works to the approaches of Arapuni. The tour was conducted by the Matamata County engineer, Mr M. E. Fitzgerald. Mr Parry said that he was greatly impressed with the scheme to develop a national park with which would be recreational areas controlled bv the interested district local bodies. The scheme called for a planned objective year by year. Me did not visualise control entirely by one national board, but an administration under which local bodies could control certain areas and raise funds, but would be subsidised by the Government. "Associated with the scheme, I think it would be possible to develop a scenic highway along the eastern side of the lake joining up through Tokoroa and Taupo," said the Minister.

A further resolution urging the Government to take immediate steps to preserve the avenue of bush on the Rotorua highway known as the Tapapa bush was carried. This area of bush is 011 the top of the Mamaku Hill.

PRIMARY PRODUCTS MARKET IN AMERICA RECIPROCITY SUGGESTED "Personally, I see no reason why the United States could not buy more of New Zealand's primary products," said Mr Sydney Greenbie, chief of the United States Office of War Information for New Zealand and special assistant to the American Minister, the Hon. K. S. Patton, in answer to a question at the conclusion of an address to the Junior Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr Greenbie said that there should be some basis -of reciprocity on which New Zealand and the United States could exchange their basic products. "I do not know any reason why we could not buy more of your meat," said Mr Greenbie. When people who had never been able to afford *it before began to buy meat it was found that the country did not have enough fresh meat.

Mr Greenbie admitted that the question was a difficult one. The United States was not an economic unit as close-knit as a British nation or the British Empire. There were even difficulties with States which had sought all sorts of ways to raise trade barriers between neighbouring States. Trade barriers between States were not legal, but there were ways of overcoming that.

DROWNED IN A DRAIN (0.C.) MORRINSVILLE, Wednesday The danger of open drains and water in the vicinity of houses on farms was mentioned at the inquest in Morrinsville into the death of Janet Ann Doyle, asjed months, daughter of Mr and Mrs E. J. Doyle, of Tahuna, who was drowned when she fell into a drain on a farm at Tahuna. A verdict of accidental drowning was returned. The coroner, Mr G. Hedge, of Te Arolia, said it was difficult for all drains on farms to bo covered.