BRIGHT PROSPECTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 256, 21 June 1932, Page 6

BRIGHT PROSPECTS

AGRICULTURAL QUALITIES OF ROTORUA LAND. VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. A survey of the various development farms in the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty districts has been made by a visiting agriculturalist who, in an interview with a "Morning Post" representativo nr> Fiturd^y. exnressed Oie opinion thpt. Ki ' Rie • *.- ter «v « v.i of 1 1 • ' »:*•.»:£ adjacent i\«*i n le. o . >n tTnps oi.exempled in 'd-si.vv ,.f i»Mn,nion. Titi ••*«>« !»:).' I'v.t" > (- .t'.i' a' •fii-N i'i by a ni'hi ' in -i • *" r* »on •>[' ' i ' ■ -•••->■• jui.i . To/- ' Mf'i >i .■« * b* .•p i a' i u, • mu --.oi and . G-;\ iiii'i'lVi'l t'd by pr.d.ags-d ii •.«}?•!• J, . •*; M .a other a'ic a;r;uii-. the •( a't is an even i-on.-i.'-mt. growth not onlv of grass but of every kind of vcgetable. "I snw the V .a m t-.it in A;vtralasia denh'Vt'd ui Uiu Rotorua ho| r Bf.l nn roiei*','* aid ! • •.gr - eult uralii l . He h-nkt •! .-n yatn !■)* iuferj-u- i a.'js ;>i j.dnf. ' «hiug displayed \v»r. of oa • ').]•> »'i»«r tn'ul' - ty. rhe l«v«u»t,y is « i-hly emi.m, d tv every eircumstanoo !;kely to • age the scientific breeding of eatt'e and sheep. There is nothing to exercise an unfavourable influence on the climate; and in a few years' fimo, when the work on the various exparimental and development farms has been consolidated, the district will come into possession of enduring wealth. Onions grown in Ohinemutu were cited as equal in texture and quality to anything in the world; and ihis a rplied to root. crops in general. The excellence of local prodiwts had become such a commonplaee ih.nt no on > thought of it until fnr.-ihiv t •ninde 1 by a visitor. RnLtrua'v ua uira i riches and endowments, r.grhnrkui-nl, forest, scenic and thermal. rr^porW

exploited., made it one of the rnost favoured centres in the Southern Heinispher '. The atmosphere, too, posressod an mvigorating tonic quality, ou« v. vy largely to the perfect equilimaintained through contact 'viih ihe e-reat hush and forest areas In tlio district."