ROSE WEEK

Opotiki News, Volume X, Issue 1047, 18 November 1947, Page 4

ROSE WEEK

NATIONAL SOCIETY’S VISITS The, colourful rose will be given pride of place this week, when delegates from district rose societies throughout New-Zealand withhold a four-days’ convention in the Manawatu. Visits will be paid to many points of horticultural interest. The week opened with' what is described as a rose -thanksgiving service, in the. Cuba Street Methodist Church, Palmerston North, last Sunday morning. The rose show at ’Bulls was via.ted yesterday afternoon, and last night the hosts, the Manawatu Rose Society, entertained visitors at a social evening.- Today will be spent at Maoaey’ Agricultural College, where the National Rose Society, with a membership ox over 1800, has established its trial grounds containing 750 different varieties. The delegates will hold a business meeting in the College Assembly Hall this afternoon. Visitors will be shown through the Esplanade to-morrow morning, and in the afternoon will visit the rose gardens of Mrs. T. R. Willis and Mr. Leslie Moss, Greatforcl. The national trial grounds will receive further attention on Thursday morning, and, the convention will conclude with a visit to the Palmerston North rose show in the afternoon.