ON TOUR.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 4218, 15 February 1921, Page 2

ON TOUR.

PARLIAMENTARY PARTY OUT BACIy. (.l'er Press Association.) Rotorua, February I I. The Parliamentary ie.it- to-day \ isin-d Waiotapu, Kaingaroa and the Iteparoa soldiers' sell lenient. T|jey made it their special concern to ob-.■i-rve tin- growth ol various grass,,., on the pumice land-. While recognising lbat. very goo.j work had been d members expressed the desire to get detailed information concerning flig eosl of bringing the land to its present stale. At Reparoa they went over a large ana, meeting settlers on tbeid farms. They recognised the good work being done, but progress had been retarded by the high cos I of transporting building material, implements, manures, etc The patty was entertained at luncheon at W'aiotapu with the Iteparoa settlers and other residents;. Mr K. K. V'aile presidod and brought forward Hie requirements of the distiici, (dressing particularly the urgeill need oi a railway between Rotorua and faupn, and making the point thai Ilie seltlprs iii'ir prepared to bear a portion of the eost bv a lew on their hinds. .Messrs Hnwken, Atniore, Mitchell, nod Hoeklv upoke, expressing themselves please,) with the class'of land they had com,, through. They realised lb gent imod of improved cotiiiiiiiiiu alio;, land w)|ich to be SlKCeSsl'dllv lltllisi-,1 11,1,5 tOe Closely seitled, transport being a great, factor in the success ol settlement. They assmed Hie settlers of sympathetic consideration to their requests. The party visited Mr Vale's llroadl <- etdai.,. Mcinhpiv, or, Ih., whole. Kr,r ilislineUv impressed In !h f . magnitude of Ibe work dope bv lie' Forestn Deparl Ilf a I Willi-karewar-wa,' Waiotal'ii and Kaingaroa, Inil in,l lavoiirablv impressed bv Ibe loads, some ol which live very bad,.