IMPRESSIONS OF N.Z.
VISITOR FROM SOUTH AFRICA. A member of the British Empire Farmers’ party, Mr A. V. Allen, of Natal, leader of the, South African party, giving his impressions ol South Africa to-day, said that it was a country of large areas and it was not practicable to farm it on the intensive lines of New Zealand farming. Fertilisers were used, of course, in agricultural areas, but to nothing like the extent they'were here. There were two drawbacks in South Africa—the rainfall was insufficient, and the farming population not great enough. They wanted immigrants, and still more immigrants. It was difficult for him to pass an opinion about the country in NewZealand. There were so many contrasts and he had only been in New Zealand one week. However, he thought it possessed wonderful possibilities. and had an excellent climate in its favour. He had been much impressed with the freezhig works, and considered them a model of efficiency and co-operation. >
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 71, 7 March 1930, Page 5
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