NEWS ITEMS

Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 105, 29 January 1954, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS

L.R.C, Meeting. Mr J. M. Stanley, president of the Taupo Branch of the New Zealand Labour Party, advises that the L.R.C. meeting advertised for January 31 has been postponed till February 7. ❖. . % Payment of Income Tax. Income tax in respect of the year ended March ,31st last is due for payment no later than Thursday, February 4, 1954. An advertiseme'nt appearing in this issue gives fuller particulars. w '£> •V* Power Outside Borough. At the January meeting of the Borough Council, Cr. C. S. Currie said he had been asked by residents of the Hawai Street area when they might be able to obtain electric power from the Council's Hy-dro-electric system. The Mayor, Mr J. E. Story, said it would be a good idea if such enquirers were told to make application to the Council on the forms provided, and to inform others in the locality to do likewise. This would provide the Council with data on which they could come to a decision as soon as they were able to do so. Marked Ttrout. His second marked trout in a week was taken fly-fishing opposite the Wharf, Taupo, by Mr Alan Clarke on Thursday evening, January 21. It was a male rainbow weighing 3ilbs and 20 inches in length. It had been marked by removal of both pelvic fins, indicating that it had been trapped in the Internal Affairs Department's fish trap at Waitahanui during the winter of 1952. A fish taken at the same spot by Mr Clarke the previous week had been trapped in the Whangamata Stream in 1951, and again in either the Whareroa Stream or the Hatchery Stream in 1952,

Morris's Store Corner. Cr. C. Vedder raised the matter of the dangerous position re motor traffic at Morris's Store corner on Rifle Range Road. An inspection by the Works Committee had been decided on but had not been made. The absence of any curbing at the corner resulted in vehicles driving fast close round the corner of the store itself and there had been some narrow escapes. It was decided that the^ Works Committee should visit the locality on the following Friday afternoon. ❖ ❖ ❖ Broken Bottles on Beach. A disturbing discovery was made last week by a resident on visiting a portion of the Lake beach used regularly for bathing. Four broken beer bottles had been buried just below the surface, constituting a grave danger to the many barefooted children and others frequenting the beach, Reporting the matter to the "Times," the resident mentioned the accident recently caused by such broken glass in Auckland, where a boy's Achilles tendon was severed with danger of his being lame for life. In view of the large numbers of bottles thrown about, parents and those in charge of children, and all bathers, should beware of broken fragments on and near all beaches.