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The question in the Waimarino is "What should we call the Ruapehu Region?" The H a m 1 e t Developers are looking for a "catchy" name. The $40 million dollar question of the day is just who is Mr Harvey Bell? Waimarino is the name of this district. What could be prettier? Does Mr Bell know that millions have been
spent on making the 'Waimarino" what it is today. Less than 100 years ago, it was covered with dense bush. The pioneers milled it, they cleared the stumps without the machinery we know today, the Chinese people gardened between windrows, all by hand. Our settlers have farmed it well and it is the most fertile land in the world. Does Mr Bell know what colour the soil is? Or just what his dollar
is going to yield? Let's think of those p i oneers w h o s e foresight has made the Waimarino, they did the work, built our halls and churches, theatres and shops and our roads. They put up with the mud too. Let us not forget them or the name "Waimarino". Dorothy Battersby
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 232, 23 February 1988, Page 6
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190Soil colour Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 232, 23 February 1988, Page 6
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