ATTRACTIONS OF TAUPO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1943, Page 4

ATTRACTIONS OF TAUPO

ADDRESS AT ROTARY CLUB. An address on a fishing trip he had made to Lake Taupo was given by Mr P. F. Fagan at today’s luncheon meeting of the Masterton Rotary Club. The president, Mr J. H. Cunningham, presided. Mr Fagan said that there had been a good deal of road development in the Taupo area. The lake, he said, was 1,200 feet above sea level and was about 90 fathoms deep. As the cliff face indicated, the level of the lake had dropped 125 feet years ago. The water was blue and charged with pieces of pumice. The beaches were beautifully clean and the rock formation around the lake was impressive. In bays around the lake there were patches of bush in which bird life abounded. Bell birds and fantails were there in nrofusion. He had even seen a black fantail. Mr Fagan described his fishing excursions in a large launch on the lake and told how the fish caught had been salted and smoked. Reference was made to the hydroelectric scheme and the effect on fishing. Mr Fagan said Taupo was an ideal place at which to spend a holiday. On the motion of Mr C. R. Mabson the speaker was accorded a vote of thanks.