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Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 677, 8 January 1926, Page 4

Rome of tile immigrants, who arrived at Melbourne last month bv the steamer Verdic described the steamer a >s a. “floating purgatory.” One woman said the migrants were packed like cattle and only allowed a few yards of deck space to walk about. Atogether 700 immigrants wore on hoard. They are not telling this one in the South Island: One day a stranger descended from a car outside one of the best farm houses in the district, remarked the owned, “Fine piece ol land out there-” “You’re right there,’ ’replied the. farmer eagerly, “it’s the best piece in the. country.” “Bit too high a figure for a pomman, 1 reckon?” asked the stronger. “It’s worth every penny of £6O an acre,” answered the farmer, with an eye to business. “Wore you thinking of settling in. these parts?” “No,” murmured the stranger, making some notes in his book. “Tm fclm Government valuer!”