CONDITIONS IN VICTORIA. ANOTHER COMPETITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 112, 13 May 1911, Page 3

CONDITIONS IN VICTORIA. ANOTHER COMPETITOR.

[BY TBLXGKAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. In the course of a letter to the Lyttelton Times, a worker who has been prominent in trades union circles in New Zealand makes some interesting remarks concerning Victorian conditions : — "The result of the referendum," he says, "was a great pity, but the workers were so apathetic that tTTey practically beat themselves. If the Labour Government does not give better satisfaction in tho coming session than it has done so far, tho next election will put it out of office. There is too much discussion among tho Labour men altogether. This is a splendid farming country, and I think that in the near future New Zealand will have a good deal to fear from its competition in. the frozen meat industry. Victoria, at any i - ate, is awakening to the fact that better feeding for sheep in the way of rape and turnips is necessai'y, and many farmers are planting, with a view to giving New Zealand a close race for quality. In. my opinion, they will get very near ue. There is every prospect of an early season this year. There have been bounteous rains and warm weather, and the grass is as good and plentiful now as in the spring. It may interest you to know that at present I am killing cattle weighing 8001b, and only two years and a lalf old. I killed last week twelve sheep that averaged 801b. I am only thirty-eight miles out <■ of Melbourne, and some of the land here is simply grand. I thought Cheviot was good, but that country _ looks second-class in comparieon. Fifty pounds an acre would buy this laaid."