TAUPO’S FUTURE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 45, 23 October 1913, Page 4

TAUPO’S FUTURE.

Taupo will be a place of considerable importance in the uot-far-away future, is the opinion of the "Lyttelton Times” which goes on to say: At present it is chiefly known as an anglers resort, and the wealthy tourist with plenty of time at his disposal camps on the shores of the great lake for weeks at a stretch in the summer season steadily hauling in the giant rainbow trout until he has creeled his solid half-ton or so of fisii. But lor the average man and woman, particularly 1 the working New Zealander, Taupo is practically out of reach by reason of its isolation and the cost of travel. It is a place of magnificent; lake and, mountain scenery, and will probably surpass,Rotprua as the North Island spa-district of the future. At present'the,time-pressed holiday-maker .passes it'by op 'the, other side because it does not possess railway connection with the Main Trunk line, and the cost of coaching or motoring to its shores is a heavy item. Now, however, there are railroading schemes in hand which will change all this. The parliamentary correspondent of the “Times” telegraphed the other day .that an

Or.der-in-Couueil had, been issued authorising the Taupq Timber Company tp extend the fight raihyay which runs from the Anckiand-Rotorna line to Mokai, to Taupo township, at the northern end of the lake. Moreover it is stated that tlie Tongaiiro Timber Company, which is operating in the great to Lira and rimu forests to the west and south of the lake, is completing arrangements for me construction of its light railway from Kakahi. on the .Main Trunk line a short distance below Taumaninni, to Knratau which is on the south-western shores of Taupo, less than ten miles tram lokaann, the lake-side terminus ot the coach road from Waiouru, the Main Iruuk station near the base of Mount Ruapehu. This line, like that from Putarnrn, is to ho made .suitable for passenger traffic, and when the work is completed a large expanse of extremely interesting country will be thrown open to the tourist and the holiday-maker.