ROTORUA SHOW
OPENING BY PRESIDENT HIGH QUALITY EXHIBITS (From Our Oicn Correspondent) ROTORUA, To-day. There was a good attendance at the opening of the Rotorua Winter Show. In his opening remarks the president. Mr. J. N. Keene, said: "We can boast, that in regard to the quality of our root crops, butter-fat, fat lambs, and fleeces, we are second to none in New Zealand. A few years ago there was practically no farming in the Rotorua County, but now we have 205.334 acres in occupation, 60,000 acres in grass and cultivation, of which 3,647 acres are in root and green crops, and this land carries 20,000 cattle, mostly dairy cows, 27,500 sheep, 2,521 pigs, and other small lines. “Our Winter Show has increased in entries each year since its inception, but we are handicapped this season with small entries in our root crops owing to the severe drought this summer, but the heads of tlje dairy industries have told us that the Rotorua district kept up a better average in cream during the dry times than any other part of the Waikato.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 385, 20 June 1928, Page 13
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182ROTORUA SHOW Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 385, 20 June 1928, Page 13
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