The view from Waipahihi Avenue, Taupo, looking south along the eastern shore of Tapuaeharuru Bay, on the northern shore of which the town of Taupo is situated. The southern extremity of this shore-line is formed by Wharewaka Point, well-known in local Maori tradition from a legendary exploit of the explorer Ngatoroi- rangi. He had climbed Tauhara mountain to obtain a view of the unknown country about it, and from the summit plucked a totara tree and hurled it spear-like into the Lake. It fell off Wharewaka Point, where, in the matter-of-fact words of the tale, "it may be seen to this day, the point down and the butt up." It was at a spot at Waipahihi, in the foreground of our picture, that Sir George Grey, famous among New Zealand's Governors, first arrived on the shore of the Lake, which he did at 2.30 p.m. on New Year's Day, 1850, having walked from near Thames, via the Mamaku Ranges and the Rotorua Lakes.

Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 108, 19 February 1954, Page 1

The view from Waipahihi Avenue, Taupo, looking south along the eastern shore of Tapuaeharuru Bay, on the northern shore of which the town of Taupo is situated. The southern extremity of this shore-line is formed by Wharewaka Point, well-known in local Maori tradition from a legendary exploit of the explorer Ngatoroirangi. He had climbed Tauhara mountain to obtain a view of the unknown country about it, and from the summit plucked a totara tree and hurled it spear-like into the Lake. It fell off Wharewaka Point, where, in the matter-of-fact words of the tale, "it may be seen to this day, the point down and the butt up." It was at a spot at Waipahihi, in the foreground of our picture, that Sir George Grey, famous among New Zealand's Governors, first arrived on the shore of the Lake, which he did at 2.30 p.m. on New Year's Day, 1850, having walked from near Thames, via the Mamaku Ranges and the Rotorua Lakes.