AMERICAN FARMERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 102, 29 April 1912, Page 7

AMERICAN FARMERS.

. I" A PARTY F"R AUSTRALIA. i. I, ■ (By Telegraph.—Press Association ) ' 'VrILI.INOTON. <un<lar. ; There pastel thro:i;':i Wellington by'; ' the Tahiti from Ma Franr is.-o some forty ; . American fanner- who are on their way . .to AUstrdHa. Tan of the Victorian (*ov- |. prrunent de'.ecates i Messrs. CattenacU ; and Dowriek 1 are in the States making . ■ ; known in both the East and West the ■ , I that Australia has to offer the 1 a_-r:.-;:lturi-t. If the report of the party I ■ ;by the Tahiti is favourable there is like- I ■ lv 1 < be a considerable exodus from Call- , , fornjj. i>r.-jon. and Washmaton. Tae ■ 'men who have --erne out are bound to ■ ; \"iitoria. Some of them have definitely | ( decided to take up iand in Australia, and . , 1 other* are not <-ominittin:r themselves I initii they have looked at ali .side? of the • proportion and have found it pra-cticaiiio ' 'and profitable. They appear to be .1 j i line s-.ainp of men. alert, intelligent and ' knowirer their business. The liberality j : of the terms offered by the Victorian 1 ', Government for the acquirement of land, j ■ ■and improTinz at is what is most attrao- 1 ■ ; tiro to the American farmers. It 16 in- ■ cornpreheriiible to them that <roo«i im- ■ pited land can be purchased by the pay- . mem ol '"1 per i*rnx. for thirty yeaj-5. i-nis 1 ' payment including both interest- and the ! return of the principal. There is nothi ing in the United states comparable to 1 •th:-. ! .