ROTORUA WINTER SHOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 76, 21 June 1927, Page 12

ROTORUA WINTER SHOW

The Rotorua Winter Show open® l to-day by the Mayor of Rotorua,**T. McDowell" in the Rotorua Transport Company’s garage Cano*** more than the usual interest that oblongs to a winter show'. It fimJj*®* direct and remarkable evidence oiw transformation of the district nw® region that a comparatively short ago held out little promise of P°j* tial agricultural -wealth, to ore*"* has within a recent period amazingly productive. -. The Tarawera eruption or ered large areas adjacertt the town Rotorua with a deposit of mud tn* • was feared might render the , permanently sterile. Chemical flee position in the course of P® . years has transmuted the mua vrich alluvial soil that n . ow .. it ny root crops said to be unrivalled u other part of New Zealand. The farming prospects ot are immense: dairying, stock-i ing, sheep-farming and the c * jjf tion of root crops, yielding >IB . results and giving the district a * ce inence second only to its jmpo and fame as the most varied an derful thermal region in the t ;ioft The entries for the show to - the field section recording do number of entries of last >' e * petitors in the poultry ana of tions have entered from all,*jjucthe North Island. The niusaing and elocution ntg attracted a record number o Ti a and altogether the show g ye t most signal advance on of achieved in Rotorua. An p visitors numbering P pssir^,i oritj 0 ritj ® expected this week, me n d ' whom w ill represent del ®g** vat**** 1 ing their families, to the Dairy conj_ere^ Mi>