CLIMATE- OF ROTORUA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19730, 1 September 1927, Page 10

CLIMATE- OF ROTORUA.

CHEMIST'S HIGH PRAISE. BENEFICIAL CONTENT OF WATER. Mr. B. C. Aston, chemist to the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, in a recent report on the Rotorua district, says: —"The climate may be claimed as one of the best in the world and although the ironfall is high, the water gets away remarkably quickly through the porous soil so that. - . .. the country is an ideal one . for both man and animals. The freedom of locally-raised stock from tuberculosis has been "noted' and the writer believes this feature also applies to the human population. " The absence of tubercle is indeed so remarkable as to prompt inquiry as to the cause. The writer, in many analyses of the natural waters of this district, whether surface waters or those from .springs or rivers, has always found an excess ot dissolved silica to be present. It is an interesting fact that silica is used in medicine as an alleviative in some forms of tuberculosis in humans. It is found on analysis that those herbs which are used bv the country folk in middle Europe for the cure of tuberculosis contain the largest percentage of silica." People of weakly constitutions and others with weakly children who go to live in the pumice districts often experience great relief from anxiety on the score of health after a few months' residence.