ABOUT QUEENSLAND.
i' Sir.—Tin* agent for the Kile of Queensland > i land, writing in your issue •of • the sth, | ] under the noni deplume of "A Queensland?" j 1 j in New Zealand." has stated hi* case with j consummate tact. He has got his point* alt i > i in very cleverly. He hat discovered. New, i ! Zealander? who are tired of our labour law - , > j who believe our land* have reached a fictiti- ! ous value. that the Government very often i j take* from a man his properly for closer j settlement, and so forth. There is nothing j ' new in all this: it is merely political froth, ] - the source of which i- familiar to most people. The Queensiandet who tries to ev- , ploit New Zealand with this political lip-talk will have i* trouble to keep the stones off his i own glnss-hou.se. Whatever our labour law.* j may be. what has Queensland to offer with its Parliament dominated by the Labour party? >How were the sugar-planters treated by the Labour party r over there? What foundation is there for the, statement that our lands have reached a fictitious value? Is it because here and there we hear of land fetching from £30 to £40 .111 acre; if so. I how much of such land is ever sold? Why. a mere modicum. I doubt N if there is 6000 , acres of such land (purely*; agricultural) in the Auckland province, while there are thou--5 hands and thousands of acres under offer at just as low a price as quoted for the Darling Downs, and with this difference, that, while we may have some Californian thistle and ragwort in places,, we have no Darling Pea. t That kills .your cattle in 2-1 hours; Neither r have we any prickly pear. And. another . very , important point is this:. We have not pot to sink an artesian well « thousand 1 : feet fenwater. All these points count when you are 1 out after land, without considering rabbits , r and snakes. If our friend from Queensland i would take a run up the Northern Wairoa, , I would show htm a few .thousand acres of land abutting on that fine river, where all - the conditions of life and climate are perfect, ' at from £4 to £5 an acre; land that will '. carry two sheep to the acre.' llenuura. (J. K. Aldekton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 3
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