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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 48, 10 December 1952, Page 5

At the end of last week fishing improved at Waitahanui and some very well conditioned fish were landed. Mi Gordon Moffatt took two limits in three days. Conditions at the Southern end of the Lake last week are reported to have been "not so bad", and sport fair. With better weather angling should brighton up.

Answers to Correspondents. "Quiz" — (1) A property-owner is prefectly entitled to advertise his intention of shooting stock straying on his land. Whether he would be within his rights in translating his announced intention into positive action is a legal question which we are not qualified to determine. (2) The Town Board has ample powers to deal with wandering stock, and has recently advertised its intention of enforcing them. t(3) We entirely agree that wandering stock are a menace to traffic on the roads, especially at night, and in thick weather. The incident reported last week, in which a truck collided with a mare and foal with results that the foal was killed and the mare so badly injured that it had to be destroyed, is a case in point. The result might conceivably have been the other way