A SWISS SETTLEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND.
— — ; —& — ;^;;t. ■.-, ,■_;•'.•. ; -\ ■ The South Australian Register states that " Karnest-Khg-ster, the commissioner of Swiss Court '"at the-Ade-laide Exhibition, speaks, of his vivid recollection of the hospitality and kindness he experienced at the hands ol the people of Adelaide, and goes on to say that New Zealand; ' with -her Swiss-like scenery, silver streams, mountain lake?, snow-capped, peaks, green pastures, fertile soil, and her kindred people,' has charmed him the most. He mentions that lie" Las purchased, on behalf of a; syndicate of Swiss gentlemen, a large, bl/ck of nearly ''4ooo acres of virgin land in Pukekohe, 30 miles outh ■ ; ot\ Auckland, on the railway line toiflamilton* It is intended to survey and. subdi-'i vide the block, and then have it- settled bv industrious farmers, chiefly Swiss. He believed there is better scope for the hard working-, thrifty tillers of the soil in the =colbriies than in the old country. The new; settlement is to be called; Helvetia;' I ,,'■'..
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 47, 29 November 1882, Page 3
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161A SWISS SETTLEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 47, 29 November 1882, Page 3
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