A GARDEN CITY
PLANS FOR ROTORUA The transformation of Rotorua into a garden city is one of the practical schemes the Borough Council is pushing forward. The wattle trees planted 30 years ago in a number of the main streets have been removed, and in their place the council is substituting an assortment of trees and shrubs admirably adapted both by tint of foliage and shade to give the town a specially inviting appearance. Upwards of 20 varieties of trees are being planted and no fewer than 35 varieties of shrubs. Care has been taken to introduce as great a number of indigenous plants as possible, the selection including shrubs that will endure the coldest and roughest weather without loss of bloom or foliage. Unemployed men, not infrequently famished and footsore, pass through Rotorua in an unbroken stream. Service car drivers report them trudging the roads in all directions. Hindus and Chinese also come and go without pause o.r restraint: but these opulent and favoured gentry arrive and depart per medium of the first-class smoking compartments aboard the trains. They disdain a less costly or more irksome form of travel.
Mr. B. M. Wilson, general manager of the Tourist Department, was a guest at Waiwera House over the week-end.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 7
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209A GARDEN CITY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 7
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