NORTH OF AUCKLAND.
MR. RICHARDSON'S VIEWS.
"THE FINEST LAND IN NEW
ZEALAND."
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Tuesday. The Minister of Lands has imparted to his colleagues a most favourable impression of the North of Auckland. His great surprise is that such land, with such a climate, had nob been settled long ago. Ho finds it difficult to account for this, unless the reason is contained in a want of energy or the poverty of the first settlors. But why the earlier settlers did not develop the district is a further puzzle. He ate oranges ripe and bananas ripe grown in Mr. John Webster's grounds at Hokianga, and ho might have had grapes ripo in a fortnight if he had had time to remain. He has the fullest belief in tho future prosperity of a great number of the village settlers, though not of all. Some of the land he saw " was Ferhaps the finest in New Zealand." These, am informed, are almost the ipsissirna verba of the Minister of .Lands, uttered in tho presence of at least two of his colleagues and some other frionds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9262, 16 January 1889, Page 5
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