THE WAIRARAPA LAKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3188, 13 May 1909, Page 3

THE WAIRARAPA LAKE.

WHO OWNS IT? At the opening of the shooting season a party of Eketahuna sportsmen visited the Wairarapa Lake to indulge in shooting, and were ordered off the lake by a property owner who haa land abutting the water, says the Eketahuna "Ex press." The matter was referred to by Mr F. C. Tumor at Saturday night's meeting of the Eketahuna Sub-Committee of the Acclimatisation Society, and he moved "That the parent body be written to asking if lands owners whose property abuts the Wairarapa Lake have power to prevent; anyone wading in the water." In speaking to the motion, Mr Tumor said that the action of the owner was unsportsmanlike and a brazen piece of effrontery, and he considered it high time the Acclimatisation Society stepped in to protect license holders. The" party, when ordered off, were wader-deep in water, and despite vehement protests that there was no trespass the man insisted that his orders should be obeyed, and went as far as to say that he controlled the water halfway across the lake. His objection, said Mr Turner, was that the intruders frightened his cattle. This was too" limp, as the cattle ware half-a-mile away. The man had probably never contributed a shilling to _ the funds o± the Acclimatisation Society, or never would, and his action deserved the severest censure. Mr Tripe, in seconding the motion, said a matter of this sort should have the greatest publicity, as men who resorted to such unsportsmanlike tactics deserved showing up. On the motion being put it as declared carried.