A NEWZEALANDER IN QUEENSLAND.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 485, 19 April 1909, Page 3

A NEWZEALANDER IN QUEENSLAND.

UNPLEASANT? EXPERIENCES.' / tBT TKUKaEini.—srEciiL cimur.sroM>BNT.i Palmcrston North, April 17. A young man who left Palmerston to seek a fortune in Queensland a month or two ago, is already sighing wistfully for his native land. Hβ is not at all enamoured of the land of bananas and Kanakas, and his advice- to Palraerstonians, who have their faces set towards Australia, does not read very much like an advertisement for the northern State. He states :■ "If you meet anybody in New Zealand who is of going to Australia, you would do them a goodturn by telling thorn to-accept , Charitable aid in preference to coming here. You will see by the heading of this letter (Rqckliampton) that I've got well into northern Queensland, and the more I see of it the less I like it. Rockhampton is known throughout Queensland as the city of three s's—sin, sweat, and sorrow." The population of the northern portion of the State is somewhat candidly dissected: "This part of Queensland is'full of Japs, Chinese, Kanakas, and half-breds of various kinds, with a fair sprinkling of quarter-brecls, try-backs, etc. They talk about their white Australia! Why,-'even the whites themselves out here turn black with the heat, or else bepomo. spotted like a leopard with mosquito bites, etc. As I sit writing this tho red ants are crawling all over the paper." Tho letter concludes with tie following description of transport facilities in Queensland: "We had a lovely trip .up the Australian coast, from Sydney to Keppell Bay, where we transhipped into a river boat. We had to lie on deck'all night with a. dirty blanket round us, and a hard straw pillow. There was a dense fog- on the river, and the result' was' that, 'irt the morning,' we all had dingo fever, and some of the boys are still. very bad." . • . ; . ■■'