LAND SETTLEMENT. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume XL, Issue 10, 11 July 1890, Page 4

LAND SETTLEMENT. TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,— l perceive in your issue of the 4th instant that the Chamber of Commerce have (not before it is needed) taken up the land settlement question, and advocate offering facilities to bona fide settlers, favourably I comparing with those of the States and Canada. I should like to suggest to those gentlemen that they should kindly give, through your paper, and the press generally, the cost of shipping grain of all sorts from Wellington (or any New Zealand port) to London, Liverpool, or Glasgew. If this wero done, I am convinced that the farmers of the Wairarapa Valley, as well as those of New Zoaland genorally, would get rid of that entirely erroneous idea which 1 find is more or less prevalent amongst them, viz., that it is impossible to compete with the North Amerioan farmors in the London markets, as the distance would cause freight to be so high. My own opinion, as an American farmer, ia that tho Minnesota, Dakota, and Manitoba grain raisers have fnr more freight to pay per bushel than the New Zealandors, as tho Amerioan has suoh a distanoe to ship per rail. And if this is so, the sooner people know it the bettor, aa it will undoubtedly give intending settlers further onconr&gement. lam, Ac, Gkorge Goring Lewis.