A SUCCESSFUL IMMIGRANT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 7

A SUCCESSFUL IMMIGRANT.

* OPPORTUNITIES ON THE LAND. (FBOII OCR OWN COHMSFOOTIHT.) SYDNEY', December 16. Hard work, perseverance, aud grit do not always meet with tho material rewards' of life they deserve, although many a man in Australia has founded a fortune on these three- attributes. The possession of these three corner stones of riches has lifted one- who eleven years ago was a raw immigrant to a position of financial stability. lo help him in liis ambition of winning a competence from the soil, he had only a knowledge of the handhug of horses, but no actual farming experience, when he stopped off tho steamer from England. A modest wage as a farm-hand was carefully economised, and he invested his savings and tho knowledge he had gained in his work, in the lease of ft wheat farm. The veuturt- paid, and four years ago, encouraged and emboldened by success, he purchased a farm of 840 acres at £8 5a an acre. In the four seasons since then, ho has grown three good crops. His present harvest is his best—so fine, in fact> that tho raw immigrant of eleven years ago is to-day adjudged tho champion wneatgrower of the Riverina by tho Boyal Agricultural Society. The crop will bo worth between £3500 and £4OOO if he Bafely harvests it. Not every immigrant oan hope to win Fortune's smile so rapidly, but this one declares that Australia is still the land of opportunity, so lomr as the opportunities are grasped with both hands as they come. It only remains to introduce this sterling example of a good immigrant, Mr P. Bees, of Linlithgow, Lockhart.