WAIROA SHOWGROUND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19241, 5 February 1937, Page 12

WAIROA SHOWGROUND

IMPROVEMENTS IN VIEW 810 FINANCIAL FFFORT (Herald Correspondent.) Visitors to the Wairoa Show on Wednesday (lid not tind any great, improvement iu the beauty of the'showground, or provision for shade. 11 had been intended to provide more shade, but tile effort came too fate in the spring. A loeal settler and a member of tiltcommit lee discussed a lay-out and a plan of operation which would have entailed a good deal of ploughing and some protection from stock, but the time and the finance proved an obstacle. Ihe willows already planted have not done as well as was expected, and the advising settler counselled the abolition of the practice of planting even willows, in small holes. The result of this practice, he said, was that the rootlets travelled round in a circle after striking a haulbank and a good bead—even tor a willow —was lost, lie advised the ploughing up of Iho planting lines in the autumn and sowing down in oats, and then in the spring the land would be in a condition to secure 100 per cent “take. Since then a specialist in Palmerston North has offered to visit, Wairoa and give his expert advice. Ibis should be favourably considered as it may prevent several possible mistakes, and as a result of the big effort being made this year to provide the finance, no doubt this point will not be overlooked.