NEWS ITEMS

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 69, 13 May 1953, Page 7

NEWS ITEMS

Big Kinleith Project. — Pulp logging near Kinleith has been commenced hy N.Z. Forest Products Limited in readiness for the start-up of the kraft pulp mill in July. To facilitate logging, the company has bought 21 new logging trucks and traiiers eosting over £100,000, one of the largest single purchases of motor trucks ever made in the Dominion. Stockpiling of pulp logs has begun at Kinleith so that ample raw material will be on the site when pulping starts. These logs consist of smaller trees rejected in normal sawmilling ojterations and also the top part of larger trees. Nb less than 125 million super feet oi logs annually (or some 307,000 tons) will be cut and handled for kraft pulping. Added to tne 258,000 tons of saw-logs to be milled annually the total will exceed half-a-million tons.

Corrections. — Two errors which appeared in our advertising columns last week need correction. First, the announcement regarding the end of the sale at the Taupo Sports Depot should jhave referred in the plural to the last weeks of the sale. Mr Baumberg is elosing up his business at the end of the month and the 20% yeductions he advertises will continue to apply to all goods in stock. The second error occurred in T. M. Kent's advertisement when it was stated that cottages were available from £100 to £1,500. The first figure should, of course, have been £1,000 and we apologies to our advertisers for these errors and commisserate with those who rang up the agents in the latter case - thinking that they were on to a good thing. ★ Beelamation at Wharf, — The filling in behind the retaiping wall, below the Wharf at the Landing Reserve, Taupo, has been almost completed by the Ministry of Works. The down-stream portion, near the eld slipway, is not yet completed, but it is now possible to note the great improvement which the work will make to the appearance and usefulness of the Land ing Reserve. Spoil for filling in and raising the level of the ground has been secured from the roadway, which is under construction, along the river bank from the Reserve up to the road that serves the Old Orchard Motor Camp, and which will give access to the Wharf from the main road between the Dam and the top of the main streej:.

NEW LAUNCH JETTIES. — The Ministry of Works staff have ro w driven the pil i or three jetties at tn up -river en ] of the retaini'ig wall at Ihe Lancing Reserve, and work has cemmenced on the decking. A fourth jetty is to be built, and berthage will thus be provided for eight hire launches, so that the inconvenient and -dangerous congestion at the Wharf itself will be obviated. The Wharf will thus be available for its original purpose, of embarking and disembarking passengers from launches, both private and eommereiah ★ New Slipway Near Dam. — When in Taupo on Tuesday of last week Mr S. A. McNamara, Controller of Wiid Life, Rotorua, stated that arrang'ements were in hand for the installation of a new slipway for launches in place of the old one at the Landing Reserve. The new slipway will be at the back- water near the Dam, and will be powered with an electrie winch. The area will be fenced and a building erected to provide locker space for iauneh owners whose boats are hauleS 'but.