A Rata Year.
A gentleman, who has recently travelled overland from the West Coast to Christchurch, thus writes to the Otago Daily limes of the magnificent spectacle presented by the rata blossoms this year : —".I have just come through the Otira George for the second time in three weeks. Something new for me ; but it is a rata year. The rata only flowers in special splendour once in seven years.- I have been nearly forty times across the hills, and never saw anything half so gorgeous. It is all on the West Coast side, of course ; and on the flat most of it has faded. But on the high land in the ( tira gorge it is still in full beauty." The mountains are fairly sheeted with ruby from the bed of the torrent to their highest crests. Every landscape painter in New Zealand and Australia ought to have been there for the last fortnight, but I doubt if any living artist could do the rata justice. And if he did he ' would be abused tor gross exaggeration. One thanks God for having been permitted to see it."
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 18 February 1892, Page 2
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187A Rata Year. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 18 February 1892, Page 2
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