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THE ROYAL TOUR.

TOKAANU FISHING CAMP. TAUPO, Sunday. A day spent at Tokaanu shows that' preparations are now well forward for the Royal visit to the Tongariro River, Lake Taupo. Kowhai Flat, the spot chosen for the fishing camp, is 20 minutes’ motor run from Tokaanu. Zane Grey camped there last year, and plans to do so later this season. A good road has been constructed from the main Tokaanu-Natiqnal Park road to the camp, a distance of about a quarter of a mile. The camp site is a grassy flat, with rising ground clothed in small native bush-trees on the left hand as one approaches it., On fhe right hand , viewed through the interlacing branches of the finest grove of kowhai trees to be seen round the shores of Lake Taupo, is the white water of the Tongariro, swirling down in foam from one quiet pool to another. Across the river is a steep bush-cover-ed bank, a charming foreground to the misty-blue forest-clad Isopes of the rugged Kaimanawa Ranges. Closer at hand in the opposite direction towers the great bulk of Pihanga Mountain Two large kahikatea trees form a striking feature of the site, still further beautified by several clumps of totaras,

WATER AND ELECTRIC LIGHT. The camp kitchen, electric powerhouse, storeroom and shower-bath building, are now nearing completion. The. kitchen has a large cooking range, with two ovens. A hot water service is incorporated. Water for the showerbaths and all camp purposes has been laid on by pipe-lines radiating from a tower-tank, to which it is elevated by a ram installed in a near-by creek. Electric light is being installed throughout the camp, the power to be generated by a petrol engine and dynamo. A radio receiving-set is also to be part of the camp equipments. Large marquees are to be erected for . sleeping purposes. An adequate area near the entrance to the camp site has been cleared for the parking of cars. A track has been cleared giving access to about a mile of fishing water above, and the same length below, the camp. The river varies along this distance from quietly gliding reaches to rushing rapids, with occasional still pools,/behind whose boulders may lurk the giant rainbow, waiting for what the river may bring, as he rests from battling with the heavier water of the rapids. The scenery along the banks is everywhere delightful. The roads in the district arc in better condition than ever before, and a considerable amount of work is being done at various points. Between . Tokaanu and National Park a tractor-grader and a motor road-roller. have been at work for some time, in addition to several parties of, men from the Waikuni and Rangipo prison camps.

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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 18 February 1927, Page 2

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454

THE ROYAL TOUR. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 18 February 1927, Page 2

THE ROYAL TOUR. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 18 February 1927, Page 2

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