ROTORUA KEEPING APACE OF GROWTH OF BAY CENTRES
Big development for Rotorua,? dependent to some extent on the Murupara project and the establishment of a deep-water port for the Bay of Plenty, were envisaged by Mr K L. Usmar, President of the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce, in an address.
Facts and figures which he produced suggest that Bay of Plenty towns are not the only ones in this part of the world which are growing at an unprecedented rate. Rotorua, Mr Usmar claimed, not only has become the outstanding tourist resort of the Dominion, but is a flourishing town as well. Its residential population, which seemed to want to remain stationary at one stage, since the war has bounded ahead. This development would Hot have been without its element of dangerous consequences had it not been for the backing of the hinterland. He predicted city status within 20 years. Rotorua’s population has already passed the 10,000 mark, he claimed. The 1947-49 Year Book figure is 9050, compared with Tauranga’s 5750, Mount Maunganui’s 1220, Te Puke’s 1230 and Whakatane’s 3080.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 63, 30 June 1950, Page 5
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179ROTORUA KEEPING APACE OF GROWTH OF BAY CENTRES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 63, 30 June 1950, Page 5
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