LAND PROBLEMS.
m A CANADIAN VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. d New Zealand is not alone in being the possessor of abstruse land problem legacies of the past. Mr. Steele, of the Canadian Bowler’s team now touring the Dominion, in an interview with a Rotorua Chronicle representative, stated that he was delighted with the appearance of the farm lands of New Zealand. The country looked beautiful. bpeaking of his own country, Ontario, he said that settlement there had started at the wrong end. The unconquerable spirit of the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic races, the passion for hard work, and the pioneering life led the early settlers into disastrous mistakes. With millions of acres of open, level prairie land, they took to forests. His folk settled there in the early days of occupation and like the rest they atg tacked the woods and burnt and destroyed timber when land lay to hand that needed but the touch of the plough to bring it into a high state of productivity. The early settlers of Canada were told that nothing could grow on the cold plains and they accepted the fact. Ontario and the near country is now the granary of the world to-day. There they have three or four feet of strong to work upon,
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 3, 22 January 1930, Page 7
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209LAND PROBLEMS. Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 3, 22 January 1930, Page 7
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