The top picture shows the Wharf, and Waikato River outlet from the Lake, as they appeared about 1928. Since then the wharf has been rebuilt, a row-boat jetty built downstream from it, and the swampy area in right foreground of top picture reclaimed, and a retaining wall built along the river's edge. The growth of the big aspen poplar near the wharf, one of Taupo's outstanding trees, and of other trees not in evidence in 1928, is strikingly indicated in the lower picture, taken recently. The spot has a perennial interest for visitors to Taupo, on account of its beauty, its nature as an inland port, and as being the actual source of the Waikato River.
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Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 173, 20 May 1955, Page 1
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116The top picture shows the Wharf, and Waikato River outlet from the Lake, as they appeared about 1928. Since then the wharf has been rebuilt, a row-boat jetty built downstream from it, and the swampy area in right foreground of top picture reclaimed, and a retaining wall built along the river's edge. The growth of the big aspen poplar near the wharf, one of Taupo's outstanding trees, and of other trees not in evidence in 1928, is strikingly indicated in the lower picture, taken recently. The spot has a perennial interest for visitors to Taupo, on account of its beauty, its nature as an inland port, and as being the actual source of the Waikato River. Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 173, 20 May 1955, Page 1
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