PROGRESS WANTED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 392, 29 November 1932, Page 4

PROGRESS WANTED

n6t properly a v* *> e '•'O WELLINGTON' VISITOR si BEStr NOT MADE OF ROTORUA EXPERT ORGANISATl(: , After CQining to Rotorua r on for the last 12 years Mi Wilson, of Wellington, states it seems to. him that Rotorua making the best of itself. "What," he asked of a "Pc porter, "would happ'en if Whai rewa were beside Los Angeles troit? What a difference there b.e- Yet . Whaka -was practicj the same state that existed l[ ago. His impression was th«; live persons- 'who understooi isation should he put in charg, necessary work of developmtcitizens had done a lot, he h Rotorua was really a nationr and it was more the work of ti ernment. The town did not get puhlicity.. Even. Waitomo Cavi more freely advertised than l People came to Rotorua a what there was to be seen, inducement was held out toi cpme agairt.. There was «c; wrong some.wheue. H.e believe; would. pay to get the very l available to b.oost. Rotorua, $ should be taken in hand hys who knew all about orgauisaf who would be able to make t best of the place.. There wast whatever, that. Rotorua couldl i wonderful under up-to-date i I ment. It seemed to him, ti ; people should put. more thoaj | energy into the developmer,! J district and town resources. should he made a real live pia# it was ;a pleasure to comtefc A National Asset "Has Rotorua been a succes; ed Mr. Wilson. "I don't thiri and it is up to us to find -ouii •after all the place. is a nat: i set in which we are all it! | That big national asset is e I properly developed. It shoul: . is time the people woke up. } Even the Railway Dep: | which was beeoming one of I ! managed of the Uoverniner' takings, did not iappear to ik foresight necessary in cate the popularity of the town. Sc more should be done than sk the people in the town a: them to look lafter themselvc

Sport Discouraged The baths are certainly very I. heard , something "with re sport which surprised me g understand that the swimnr held a carnival in the BlueE a small sum for the night. 1 a great success of the undertal netted a good profit. Now ti proposed to hold a second the Government has put the: 5 the bath up to £20 plus a je j of the takings. The result, I i will be the dropping of the Such sports meetings as t i help to popularise, the tom is unwise of the Governmnt per organisations in. this ma demanding such a big sliaK profits. s.