NEWS ITEMS

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 70, 20 May 1953, Page 2

NEWS ITEMS

New Town's Taupo Lirtk — The new town to he built near TeTeko, in connection with the projeeted newspri'nt mills, may he called Kawerau, that heing the name reecmmended hy the Geographie Board, which has yet, however, to be gazetted. Kawerau is the name of a large tract of land in the district and is also the name of an old pa there. The land was settled by the Maori people soon after arrival of the great migration ahout 1350* The first inhabitants were of the Tini o Kawe-rau tribe from Hawai - ki, and the majority of Maori people liying at Kawerau are descended from this tribe and belong to the NgatiTuwharetoa braneh of Te Arawa. Amongst Tu wharetoa people of Taupo and Tokaanu are some bearing kinship to the Kawerau people. Tu~ wharetoa, the great ancestor whose. I name the Taupo country tribe bears, | is burled at Kawerau.

X Lady Norrie and Rotorua,— Her Excellency, Lady Norrie, wife of the Covernor-Generai, has a link with Rotorua that His Excellency mentioned when speaking at a reception tendered by the Arawa Confederation at Whakarewarewa on Tuesday of last week. Her first cousin, | Edwin Bainbridge, w^as killed at Te i Wairoa in the Tarawera Eruption on the night of June 9th. and 10th., 1886. Aged 20, he was on a visit from England, and was killed in the ccllapse of the balcony of McRaeU Hotel. The Bainbridge Memorial Methodist Church in Rotorua perpetuates his memory. The late Mr W. H. Bird, well known in the Taupoliotoj.ua country, iclated in an article written on the occasion of the f ortyfifth armiversary of the eruption. how he, young Bainbridge and others? we're sheltering from falling mud in the doomed building and how the young visitor led thern in prayer shortly before his death,

X Appointment for Taupo ChieT — Mr Pateriki Hura lias "oeen ap« pointed to the Board of Maori Affairs, which meets regularly in WeU liiigton, and is charged with the financial responsibilities of the Department of Maori Affairs concerning farming, housing and other questions. Mr Hura is a chief of Ngati-Tuwharetoa of Taupo, and is a cousin of Mr Hepi Te Heuheu, paramount chief of that tribe. He has had extensive - business expei - ience in the Kiiig Country connected with both farming and tirnber milling. It will be remembered that Mr Hura's daughter, Miss Te Ata Mira Hura, was the successful Queen in the Queen Carnival held in Taupo some time ago to raise funds for the ; War Memorial Hall. Miss Hura is now completing her training as a dental nurse for the School Dental Service.

X i Big Tongariro Brown. — Mr T. G. Hamilton, of Hastings, recently took in the Tongariro River a brown trout weigbing fourteen and a half pounds and thirty and threequarter inehes in length. The fish, a jack, was taken at night. Though probably one of the heaviest fish re~ ported as heing taken in Taupo waters this season, it was not, as the prcportions of weight and length indicate, in the best co-ndition. ^r

Ambulance Brigade Cadets. — The Taupo St. John Ambulance Brigade Cadets, under Mr L. E. Reid, Cadet Superintendent, and Mr A. Kennedy, Divisional Superintendent, spent the weekend of Friday-Sunday, May 7-9, in camp at Rotokawa, where accommodation was kindly provided by Aiforestation Pty. Ltd. Twelve cadets attended the camp, and a useful weekend was spent, with instructional and physical training classes. At the week-end work was commenc ed on clearing the site of the Lake Hotel. All the buildings are being removed from the portion of the frontage facing Tongariro and Tuwharetoa Streets; the biggest job pf all being the s-hifting of the licencees residence and office building* to one of the sections at the back facing Tuwl aretoa Street.