THE BEST SETTLERS.

Auckland Star, Issue 291, 9 December 1925, Page 7

THE BEST SETTLERS.

TOWN MEN SUPERIOR. LORD APSIiEY'S BELIEF. LONDON, November 26. Lord Apsley, M.P., who posed as a migrant and obtained work in Australia, to learn the conditions, afterwards attending the Empire Press Conference, told the special representative of the "Sun" that, while working and tourin? in Australia, he met a greater number of town-bred than country-born men who had made a success on the land. The townsman, he said, was quicker j in the uptake, more resourceful, and hud . more.push than the countryman, who! was usually content so long as he got a job, instead of acquiring his own farm. "Once a healthy townsman overcomes | the initial dislike of cooking his own food, and mending his clothes, he makes the best pioneer in the world," said Lord Apsley. "I would like to see camps established in Britain to teach the townsman these elementary duties, and to enable the migration officials to select the fittest. The sex instinct has drawn many men from the loneliness of the land. Jilted men. who foreswear women's society, do not care about the remoteness of the regions in which they reside, but one cannot expect to find enough jilted men completely to develop the outback j areas. The obvious problem, therefore,' is to provide social life, in which women,' can participate with the men in developing the land and building their own homes."