ROTORUA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 14, 6 April 1910, Page 64

ROTORUA.

April 1. A Busy Season. This has been a record Easter for Rotorua as regards “numbers,’’ it being estimated that over 2000 visitors arrived between Wednesday ami Saturday. Up to Easter Monday the weather was perfect, but then, ala*! the rain began to fall, and Rotorua has since come in for its shire of the bad weather with which the whole inland has been visited. The rendezvous on Good Friday and Saturday was the Sanatorium Gardens, ■where hundreds of people disported themselves. On Saturday and Monday evenings “The Scarlet Troubadours” played to crowded houses, and on Monday evening also “Maggie’s Troupe” gave an entertainment consisting of poi dances and hakas, in the garden**, but the weather proved unkind. Since then we have suffered a deluge, and equinoctial gales have raged and brought down dozens of trees in the gardens and elsewhere, lifted the roofs of stables ami sheds, and strewn the streets with broken branches and leaves. Not a tree is left to shelter the monkey-bonnes in the gardens, and great excitement prevailed amongst the apes during the storm. Over 100 trees were uprooted in the gardens alone, where the roots have anything but a firm grip of Mother Earth. Personal. Mi<s. Peggy Pasley had frightful weather for her wedding on Wednesday morning, and consequently many of her friends were unable to see the ceremony. She is a great favourite with all who know her. and will be much missed by her Rotorua friends, and also by the choir of St. Lukes, of which she was a member. She received a- presentation from the choir of her church on Sunday night, the Rev. t . A. Tisdall making the presentation. Captain and Mrs. Hope-Johnson, of Kihikihi, ami Mr. Beauchamp Earle, are visiting Rotorua, and staying at Waiwera House. Dr. and Mr*. Aubin, of Parnell, have ju-'t "pent three weeks in Rotorua. Mr*. Edger, of Auckland, is still here and "laying at Grande* \ up. Miv. Ransome, of Re nine ra. has returned to Auckland after visiting Rotorua. Among"t the Ea*ter visitors from Auckland have been Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Reed. Mi". Ar.h. Clark and Miss Isobel Clark. Mr. Svdnev Thorne-George. Mrs. Cha*. (twen.Mr*. J. St. Clair (Dcvonporl), Mrs. P. A. Vaile, Mis* Minnitt, the Mi""es Udy. the MU*es Bis*, Miss Harvey, Mi*s Blades. Mr. and Mr*. Empson and family, of Rotorua, went to Hamilton last week to attend the wedding of Mr. Stanley Empson on the 29th. Mr*. C. Wallnutt. of Remuera, is visiting friends in Rotorua. Mr*. F. Rhodes and Mi** Carrie, of Rotorua, were in Auckland for Easter week. Mr. ami Mrs. James Mill* and Miss Mill*, of Auckland, are staying here. Mr*. Huddlpstone. of Te Aroha, has been spending a holiday lu re, and staying at Arawa House. Mr*. Luca* Bloomfield is here just now, ami staying at the Graml Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Coleman, of Gisborne, are vi"iting Rotorua again.

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