THE BEST SETTLERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 December 1925, Page 8

THE BEST SETTLERS.

TOWN MEN SUPERIOR

LORD APSLEY’S BELIEF

Lord Aspley, M.P., who posed, as a migrant, and obtained work in Australia to learn the conditions, afterwards attending the Empire Press Conference, told the London representative of the Sydney Sun that, while working and touring in Australia, he met a greater number of town-bred than country-born men who had made a success on the laud. . The townsman, he said, was quicker in the uptake, more resourceful, and had more push than the countryman, who was usually content so long as he got a job, instead of acquiring his own farm. “Once a healthy townsman, over-, comes the initial dislike of cooking his own food, and mending his clothes, he makes the best pioneer in the world, said Lord Apsley. “I would like to see camps established in Britain to teach the townsman these elementary duties, and to enable the migration officials to select the fittest. The sex instinct has drawn many men from the loneliness of the land. Jilted men, who foreswear women’s society, do not care about the remoteness of the regions m which they reside, but. one cannot expect to find enough jilted men completely to develop the outback areas. The obvious problem, therefore, is to provide social life, in which women can participate with the men in developing the land and building their own homes.”