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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1929, Page 4

It is pleasing to learn that the Koka-ahi-ko'iterangi Winter Show opening this day week, is being well supported again fy the settlers, and that the curies received are well up to the average, and should make an excellent display. These annua! exhibitions are evidence of the vitality of the disquiet, sh iwing how alert the settlers ire This spirit counts for progress, ihe show is worthy of imitation in other parts of Westland, and failing that emulnti n oulsiue settlers should ndcavour lo compete more prominentiv at the es abhshed show. The an mmi display is an index of possihilities which if foil .wed upon any scale, urns, mean more and more product.on, am the accruing of greater wealih 10 tin community. The Kokatahi-Koiterang district is capable of taxing an advanced place in production. Jt is wel .oadeu, and well settled. A deposit of rich l.mest..ne is at the settlers .1 ors for aiding productivity. It is ■lose to a local market, and in touch .nth a rail-head ser.ing means o: ransport to the wor.d markets. Being placed so fortunately the settlers arc under an obligation to make as much ..s possible of their golden opportunity, looking hack at previous shows ami the quality of the produce shown we should say that the cl is rict is capable of producing the very best in all forms uf ,st .ek and dairy produ. e, while with proper farming, valuable crops can be produced For the stock and dairy produce, there appears to be an un..miied demand, and therefore every encouragement to produce in greatei quantity. This is quite possib.e foi me district if more of the fallow land were brought into use. Areas in most ot our settlements are on the large ide with the result that paddocks arc nit as clean and attractive as tlicj mould lie. In many parts gorsc unci blackberry growth occupies some o die best of ground, if we compare the land so invested with neighbouring ,rcen fields of good pasture. If lain .vere dearer in Westland than it is. here would l>e less noxious growth, me ordinary setter could not attorn his holding to he over-run afe is s <■ often the case. A now horn spirit fm setter farming would he helpful to al air's of the district, and iust as Koka-uihi-Koiterangi has taken the lead ii showing what the land 'can produce in quality; so the settlers might de monstrate- as effectively what the land in their charge can produce also in •Miantitv when used as it should be for the benefit of the national wea th t~ is full capacity. These are thoughts which suggest themselves when comrdementing the settlors on their ability to provide and patronise libcrallv a good show, let there also ho an advance in the tvne of settlement pervading the district.