THE N.Z.A. CO.'S SETTLERS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 369, 27 June 1884, Page 2

THE N.Z.A. CO.'S SETTLERS.

1 • •'• t Qcd->CHE EDITOB,

: Sib,— ln your issue^-pf c £sih instant, one 1 calling himself "Old LScncllorrl V .* -> : l>W iv i. m^ke : ,ther public .believe -^hati^ settlers oa -, the New ,Zealc»icV.A§rs)ilturpS Company's estate are so fjxv involved t%<& they are not able to meet their liabilities. ' ic He also says that the graiu now threshed has- turned out loss than teu bushels vvv acre...- This. is emphatically unwiis. '&/ vy,' Sir, I have threshed tibout six -hundred acres = of the thousand ■ acres of grain- 1 gcew this year^fmd although it was the lightest "part of my crop my wheat has averaged-37 bushels per acre, and oats 1 .£5., .Novr, .supposing I seH,,mx grain at an average 'or' 2s per bushet^Ori "t'rwks at nearest 1 siding, I will not only be a])le to pay cost of : production, but also LIOOQ : 'of the purchasemoney of my farm, : arid s sfill hafe^S considerable balance with my banker ; and then my farm is only second to a great many on the , Estate-; . t ; pQßsi(}§iv th&ty?" Old Landlord "■ would be better known and more appreciated in petticoat :Lane or Paddy's Market thaahe: is likely to be by the energetic and persever- . ing settlers of the fertile plains of Wainaea. — • ■!) am, etc.', , ■%- \ >j ■, «•• & ' O^B'OE 1 THE N.KA.' OO.'^SBtTLBRS.