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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1927, Page 2

The settlers of the Kokatalii-Koite-rangi district are to be congratulated on the marked measure of success attending the annual Winter Show now ill progress. Since the inception a few years ago the Show has steadily grown. It has been creditable always to the enterprise of the people, and this year shows no diminution of personal interest in the welfare of the event. The settlers generally cooperate in splendid spirit, friendly, yet competitive, and with each trying to excel, the aggregate result, year by year is more and more commendable. The people of the district show such an interest in the annual event by making an outstanding success of the exhibits, that the popularity of the Show is not likely to diminish. But flie Show is surely some evidence of the possibilities of Hie district. Tim fine range of exhibits in the large hall come literally from the land itself. A district which can make so brave a show, and which supplies such a varied range of exhibits, has productive resources perhaps little dreamt of. T these days of quiet times we are ant to think that the resources of the dis-

trict are limited.to a very few lines of ( local production. Hut the Show, manifests the wide range of produce it is possible to take off a farm, and territory which can produce so much and so varied a class of readily saleable commodities, must have a certain future before it. The produce of a district is a test of its fertility, and it is apparent that the ICokatahi-Koite-rangi contains land capable of producing greatly increased quantities of produce which will command always a ready sale. A district with such national resources cannot go back. A\ ltli good settlers on the land and the spirit of emulation rampant, the locality must produce more and mole as time goes by. It is a question of making more use of the responsive hind, of clearing up the paddocks, and seeing that two blades of grass grow where one grew before. Of attending to the type and care of the stock, of getting down to the task of real farming, by producing within the area hold, the feed necessary to cany the settlers’ stock through the year, and generally operating on the lines of a successful fanner who makes tire most of his holding in every way. There is a very large area of land up the valley capable of such treatment and of giving enhanced' returns. The Show demonstrates that fact very clearly, and it is to the credit of those on the land that it- is so. The district has tTio capabilities, and handled as they can he, will give substantial and permanent results, bringing affluence to those on the land, a reward well earned for their skill and enterprise.