Sporting Attractions.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 566, 24 June 1933, Page 8

Sporting Attractions.

Apart from the scenic and thermal ■ aspects of the area, Rotorua is a verI itable sportsmen's Mecca. The many I lakes and streams in the district are teeming with the famcus fighting rainj bow trout. This, the gamest of all fresh -water fish, reaches great size in Rotorua waters, 10-pounders being commonplace, and fish as heavy as 261b have been taken. Angling for these fresh-water fighters in the sylvan setting of the Rotorua lakes and streams with their backgrounds of sun-kissed hills and almost tropical bush, is a sheer pleasure and a real mental tonic. The golfer who visits Rotorua invar:ably comes back again, and why j should he not, for in Rotorua he has i a course unique in bazards and fascinating in lay-out Where else in the world can be found such undulations of velvet fairways, intereepted, perhaps, by here a hot pool, and there a smoking geyser or a muttering mud pool? This is Arikikapakapa the main course, but on the shores of the lake there is another fine nine-hole course j named Motu tara., which also has its [ special features. j The tennis player has the choice of 18 grass courts. The bowler is well served with fine public greens; the croquet player likewise, and even the horn of the hunter is now h'eard on the slopes of the Rotorua hills as the hunt follows the hounds pell mell afi ter the elusive h'are. j Swimming has de luxe attractions j .beyond compare. Imagine a fullj length swimming bath, white-tiled, ! spiarkling blue waters of a warmth ] that attracts but never chills or over- ! heats, diving towers, sun balconies, richly furnished and carpeted resting rooms. Picture this and you have not a Hollywoodian conception, but a mental image of the famous Blue Bath at Rotorua. There are other ; baths, too, that cater for the enjoyj ment of young and old, rich and poor, ; . alike. j For the sufferer there are the bene- ; ficent waters of nature, brimming ; with' minerals, "which, with the aid of medical science, smooth away pains and restore health and vigour.