LAND OF OPPORTUNITY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 142, 18 May 1932, Page 7

LAND OF OPPORTUNITY.

FAITH IN ENGLAND. Mr T. Dill Edwards is a much-travel-led Irishman, who has unbounded faith in England. At the same time, he retains a true Irishman’s affection for his native country (says the Sydney Morning Herald). Having crossed the equator for the fortieth time, he arrived with his two daughters at Sydney by the Narkunda. “People who talk about poverty in England are talking through their hats,” ho declared. “There is no poverty in England.” What of the people on the dole? “People on the dole in England are not poor,” came the reply. “They are able to look well, eat well, dress well, and go to football matches. I have travelled throughout the country, and I have never seen a starving nor a poorly-dressed child. It is said that the depression is world-wide, but I saw on evidence of it in England. I have seen recently more expensive motor cars booming through London than ever before. Incidentally, the roads are perfect—especially the by-roads.” Mr Edwards extolled England as a land of opportunity. “Living in England is cheap—as cheap as before the war,” he continued, “but it can bo as dear as you like to make it. Country property is very cheap. It has always been a puzzle to me why people come to Australia from England, when the "opportunities for apple-growing there are wonderful. I visited Seabrook, a big orchard at Boreham, near Chelmsford, two years ago. The owner cleared £14,000 from 600 acres in one -year, principally from apples' and 1 small fruits. I saw General Ivor Maxse’s private orchard, near Piiborough, in Sus-' sex, the year beforo last. It comprised 15 to 20 acres of Cox’s Orange Pippins, grafted on to Dwarf Paradise stock, and planted on the cordon system. Under this system tho trees are planted very close together—two feet apart, with seven feet between the rows. The profit in one year was £2OOO. Fruitgrowing in the old country has prospered exceedingly. Wonderful money is being made at it. “The quality of the cattle and sheep stocked in the rural areas is maintained at an exceptionally high level.”