ROTORUA, N.Z,, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 January 1932, Page 4

ROTORUA, N.Z,, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932.

! • PROGRESSIVE MOVE The decision reached by the Rotorua A. and P. Association on Monday evening to proceed with the erection of a permanent home for -itself and its annual show is one which will have the ensthusiastic approval of all sections of the community. The rural districts centred on Rotorua are at the dawn of an era of development which, only a year or two ago, it wnuld have have been difficult, if not impossible to visualise. Despite the difhculties of the times and the feeling of uncertainty regarding the future which in some. other areas is crippling enterprise, it is only necessary to go out into the country surrounding Rotorua to be iipmediately impressed and cheered by the e.vidences of confidence which abouiid. Everywhere are signs of progress and development. Not only are the Govgrnment and the Maoris under the leadership of Sir Apirana Ngata engaged in dev.elopmental work on a large scale, but a big majority of the settlers also are giving practical expressioh to their confidence in.the future of their district by undertaking improyement and development work on their farms in proportion to their indivi(iual capacities. That already this work is beginning to bear fruit is demonstrated byihe steadily rising output of the dairy factories which serve the district and the increasing exports of woo.l and many other products. It is but fitting therefore that the A. and P. Association, which is in a special sense the representative of the rural community as a whole, should dembnstrate its poss'essi.on of a faith and enterprise proportionate to that of its members individually and we know of no way in which the association could more appropriately do this than by the investment of its f unds i^i a permanent home for its shows. 3?he association is the fortunate possessor of one of the finest sites in Rotorua for a building suitable for public gatherings, whether meetings, shows, or other entertainments. On sucli a site, facing the towp, from Fenton Street at the cornei bf Amohau Street, it is dqsirable, as members of the association obviously realise, that their building shall.be more than just a roof to cover them; that. it shall, in fact, be a constant demonstratiori to strangers and reminder to themselves and the commifhity in ^eneral of; their enterprise and their faith. Such a ^iiiiding . would not. oply. serve the material needs for which it was designed; it .would aiso be one of the best advertisements the pumice lands could have.