NO PESSIMISM
“It is impossible to be pessimistic afLor seeing tlio country ,as 1 saw it vccontly.” said the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives. There might lie difficulties now, hut they had a splendid country and an industrious population, and they would net over nil the trouble. Tie was pleased to see that some people still had confidence in the country, and he quoted, as proof of this,' the report of a sale of land in Auckland, when the j rices wore from ,C 7to CL’OI an acre. “But if anybody wants to see pood land—” Mr Masters : “Go To Taranaki.” Mr Neat a ; “What about Poverty Bay?” " . • • the Prime Minister: “I was pomp to say go to the top of Pnkekaho Hill and you would see land off which throe crops a year can ho taken. Two crops n year are quite common.” Mr M'Callum,:, “We get four crops of lucerne in Marlborough.” No one attempted to go one hr iter (ban this.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 24 March 1921, Page 5
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166NO PESSIMISM Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 24 March 1921, Page 5
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