THE WRECK OF THE S.S. TPUPO.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1039, 20 February 1879, Page 2

THE WRECK OF THE S.S. TPUPO.

Another larga steamer has within a few months been wrecked in making for Tauranga. The Taupo has shared the same fate as the Taranaki, and fortunately also without loss of life. Tauranga harbor will gain an unouviable notoriety, and this is more to be regretted, as being at present the only available route to the Hot Springs and Lake Country, tourists from other colonies and other parts of ]New Zadland will be deterred from visiting those districts. This second wreck, within so short a time, and of a large steamer too, poiuts most imperatively to the necessity of taking active steps towards the opening up of the inland route to the Lake country by way of tho newly discovered road between Cambridge and Kotorua, by which the dangers and disagreeables of the sea voyage from Auckland to Tauranga may be altogether avoided. Tourists wil then be able to take the railway into Waikato in less than six hours, and drive the remainder of the distance in a comfortable coach or bhggy in about the same time. The work is one that should be pushed ahead as rapidly as possible so that by the middle of next summer the route by wa/ of Cambridge to the Lakes may bo rendered easily available, even for invalids,