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Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1928, Page 2

Tun friendly invasion of the Otago farmers due tin’s evening is ol public interest, because it is to lie hoped the visitors will make so many friends for Wrdlainl. who will go away again walking advertisements of the attractions of this district. It is unfortunate that the visit is confined to little more than twenty-four hours. There is not time to got more than a fleeting view of the place. But we hope the visitors will be blessed with .good weather, and he able to make the most of their time in pleasurable sight seeing. One of the special assets of the district which visitors arc extolling always, is the great range and variety of scenery Westland presents. Tho County area is flic largest of its kind in New Zealand and it is a scenic wonderland. Oversea visitors never fail to be enraptured with the district, But our vistors on this occasion are practical farmers, and they will be having an eye for tho useful ns well as the beautiful. In regard to pastoral pursuits. Westland is indeed a land of promise. The verdant nature of the country indicates what can lie produced. Dairying is progressing all the time. Stock raising lias always been a success. In both instances greater production is necessary. and given the population and enterprise that material increase is certainly passible. The quality of our wool has been tested out in the open market, and not found wanting. Now that there is the means of ready and regular export to the wide markets offering off the Coast, there is no reason why the production of the district should not continue to increase and recoup the man on the land for bis work and bis enterprise. Land hero is not as expensive as in other centres. Tt is more remote from markets, but with good roads and ready rail connection that is not a disability, seeing that the capital investment is on a greatly reduced average cost. The timber resources of Westland must strike our visitors also as something inexhaustible and that there is much latent wealth in the forests of the distriert.r Here, then, is a province of possibilities. If the mining; deposits are again sought for a great leap of prosperity will follow sue: ess. The district is well worth the study of our visitors who we hope will see enough to attract them again, if not to ensure the permanent residence in the future of .some of those who may be here today merely on pleasure bent.